Windows 10: windows 10 printer spooler is not allowing me to print, even though I have cleared the...

windows 10 printer spooler is not allowing me to print, even though I have cleared the spooler. How can I get around this to start printing again?

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Print Spooler Service Stopping

Drugged up on Pain Med's, exhausted from barely any sleep for four days and trying to type on a iPhnone. The USB driver and queue can end up stalling. Have you checked the print queue to see if there are jobs stalled or in the Print Spooler folder? Also grab the Process Explorer by Sysinternals from Microsoft.com. It will allow you to see the Sub Process, especially under the System process. See the following:

Clear Printer Spooler Files

• Click Start, type Services.msc in Search box or Click WIN+Q, type “Services.msc” in the open box.
• Services can be found under Computer Management on older operation system (Windows XP)
• Double-click Printer Spooler in the list.
• Click Stop and click OK.
• Open C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS.

I cannot find the tutorial, this is a more extensive way to check Print spooler stopping automatically on Windows 10, Windows 8 and 8.1 windowstricks.in

 

Reset and Clear Print Spooler in Windows 10


I use the same commands but wrapped in an AutoHotkey script which takes care of the elevation and provides an onscreen message:





Code:

Code:

; Based on https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24987&hilit=print+queue #SingleInstance force ; Ensure only one instance at a time #NoTrayIcon ; Surpress the default Notification tray icon  ; Prompt to 'Run as Admin', i.e. show UAC dialog If Not A_IsAdmin {    Run *RunAs "%A_ScriptFullPath%"  ; Requires AHK v1.0.92.01+    ExitApp }  SplashImage,, W300 H120,, `nPlease wait...`n`nThe Printer queue is being cleared.`n`n This may take up to 10 seconds., Clear Printer Queue ; Show user message to inform what's happening Runwait, %comspec% /c "net stop spooler",, hide ; Stop the Print Spooler  ; Windows has its Print Queue located at the path used below. Runwait, %comspec% /c "del C:\Windows\System32\spool\printers\* /Q /F /S",, hide ;  Delete all files in the Print Queue (using [Q]uiet mode, [F]orce and clear [S]ub-folders switches)  Runwait, %comspec% /c "net start spooler",, hide ; Restart the Print Spooler splashimage, off ; Close the information message  ExitApp

I've added this as a right-click option using a REG file:




Code:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shell\Clear Print Queue] "Icon"="C:\\Windows\\System32\\shell32.dll,222" "MUIVerb"="Clear Print Queue"  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shell\Clear Print Queue\command] @="explorer /root,\"C:\\Support\\ClearPrinterQueue.ahk\""

Hope this helps...

 

Documents Disappear in Print Spooler before printing

Hi David,

There are different factors that can contribute as to why you're not able to print documents on a wireless printer that other computer can use to print. This could be caused by outdated device drivers or the
print spooler that temporarily stores print jobs on the computer needs to be reset

Since you are still not able to print documents after you completing different troubleshooting steps, we suggest that you follow the steps to

clear and reset the print spooler to resolve your concern. This will allow you to restart the
print spooler service that manages the printing process in your computer.

We look forward to your response after you complete the steps.