The Todd Today

If your print spooler keeps stopping every time you start it hopefully this fix will work for you.

I ran into this problem today and after much searching on google I was able to come together with a few solutions as well as the one that ended up working for me.

The problem seems to be a faulty printer driver that may have been corrupted or messed up by a windows update.  So if your printer had been working and now is not try the solution below.

The solution is to delete the print drivers on your system and re-download the latest drivers from the manufacture website but that’s not as easy as it sounds.

Most posts wanted me to open a “Print Management” which can be found in the control panel under administrative tools to delete the printer drivers.

The only problem is that I did not have “Print Management” under control panel because my print spooler is stopped so this was not much help.

Another way to bring up “Print Management” is to run the command “printui /s/ t2″ without the quotes.  This did bring up the “Print Management” for me but I could not delete printers because my print spooler was still not running.

My final solution that worked:

1. Unplug all of your printers
2. Navigate to where your printer drivers are stored C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS\
3. Make a new folder called OLD
4. Copy all files into the new folder called OLD
5. Go to the control panel – click Hardware and Sound – click Devices and Printers (Make note of printers deleted for step
6. Right click on all of your printers and click Remove Device
7. run “printui /s/ t2″ from the start menu / run dialog box
8. Select the printers that you deleted in step 5 and delete them.
9. Restart your computer (Your print spooler should now stay running)
10. Download the latest drivers from your printers manufacture website
11. Install the drivers and hook up the printers again when prompted to do so by the software.

Did this work for you?  Let me know if the comments.