Printer Service Stoips

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I'm running win2k3. Two to three times a day the print service stops and I
have to manually reset it. The event log only says that the service has
stopped and must be restarted. I can't see what's causing it.
Thanks for any help...
 
Re: Printer Service Stoips

john.loconte@noaa.gov wrote:
> I'm running win2k3. Two to three times a day the print service stops and I
> have to manually reset it. The event log only says that the service has
> stopped and must be restarted. I can't see what's causing it.
> Thanks for any help...

In my experience, this is usually because of bad drivers (I've also seen
inkjet drivers cause MAJOR problems if you have any inkjet printers -
though in fairness, the last time I had any major opportunity to explore
these problems was 3-4 years ago.

I would probably suggest reviewing who is printing to what printer at
the time the spooler crashes.

You can also set the properties of the spooler to auto restart. Or
create a small script and schedule it to run to check if the spooler is
running and start it if it isn't. (Better to find the root cause though).

-Lee
 
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