Windows 10: .TMP File Stuck in Printers Folder After Every job - Halts Printing

I'm working on a Windows 10 computer on which, after printing a single job, 3 files usually remain in the C:\Windows\System32\Spool\Printers folder. 2 can be deleted without issue. The 3rd, a .tmp file throws an error when I try to delete it. (see attachment) Nothing can be printed until the file has been deleted.
Only way I've found to delete the file is to stop the print spooler, delete the file, re-start the spooler. Soon as another print job is sent, problem recurs. I've found information that this .exe is for spooling of .xml files. Haven't found much about others having this problem. There's a little info that malware disguises itself as printfilterpipelinesvc.exe, but I can't find anything real substantial. I would appreciate information helping solve this problem. Thanks!

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Print spooler

Documents freeze in my print spool. I clear the spool using %windir%\system32\spool\printers, however, there are .tmp files in the folder that I cannot delete. The printer freezes every time I print. What is solution?

 

Windows 10; After Each Prt Job, .TMP File Left in Printers Folder; Can't Delete, Error in Printfilterpipelinesvc.exe

I'm working on a computer on which, after every print job, 3 files remain in the C:\Windows\System32\Spool\Printers folder. 2 can be deleted without issue. The 3rd, a .tmp file throws an error when I try to delete it. (see attachment) Nothing else can
be printed until the .tmp file is deleted.

Only way I've found to delete the file is to stop the print spooler, delete the file, re-start the spooler. Soon as another print job is sent, problem recurs. I've found information that this .exe is for spooling of .xml files. Haven't found much about others
having this problem. There's a little info that malware disguises itself as printfilterpipelinesvc.exe, but I can't find anything real substantial. I would appreciate information helping solve this problem. Thanks!

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• For each print job there are two spool files generated by the Windows spooler. One file with the .SHD extension for job settings, and one with the .SPL extension for the drawing commands.
  
  Using notepad ..
  
  @echo off
  net stop spooler
  cd\
  cd \windows\system32\spool\printers
  del *.tmp
  net start spooler
  exit
  
  Save as a c:\windows\clrspool.cmd
  
  Setup a task schedule that runs the cmd sometime in the early morning when nobody will be printing.
  
  

 

sorry forgot to mention check the folder permission and if Users or Admins doesn't have permission or only special permission set permission to read/write and check

 

Hello jamichau, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you like, the .bat file from Option One in the tutorial below can help make it easier to clear the print spooler as MetalSaint posted above.

*Arrow Reset and Clear Print Spooler in Windows 10 Windows 10 Hardware Drivers Tutorials

 

Thanks, MetalSaint and Brink, for your replies. The .bat file will help my customer (a friend of mine, this isn't something I'm doing at work) clear the queue on his home computer, but doesn't solve the problem. I've seen, at work pretty often, in the past, the printing of PDFs leaving behind .SHD and .SPL on HP LJ P1606 printers. But it was only occasionally and I would just clear those two files and customers could print again. But there was never this .TMP file in use by Printfilterpipelinesvc.exe in those instances, and it wasn't every PDF they printed, so I think there is something more to this.

I should add, that the person with this current problem is printing PDFs (online banking statements). I don't think print jobs from other applications produce the same problem. Still, why the .tmp file and why is it in use by the .exe? On his older, XP machine and on his current machine with Windows 7, he never had this problem. It started some time after upgrading to Windows 10.

BTW, I have checked permissions on the Printers folder. They're OK.