Cancel all jobs in queue on Printer?

[kovas]

I have a network printer and it has 5 documents in print queue but it tells me Access Denied when I try to Cancel them. The computer the documents were sent to print from is no longer here I dont think. I unpluged the printer but it still had those documents in queue. Any ideas?

Thank you.

 

[wlpsyp]

What operating system are you using? If it is NT/2000/XP stop the spooler service and restart it

 

[kovas]

Its xp, sorry a bit clueless here but what is a spooler service and how do i stop it?

thank you for the help!

 

[wlpsyp]

CAREFULLY.... Go into Administrative Tools > Services > Scroll down until you find the Service called Print Spooler. Double Click it, then click Stop, then once it is stopped, click on start. It should all go away then. If not, click somewhere on your desktop and hit the F5 key to refresh.

Or.... stop it, make sure it is set to Automatic and reboot the computer.

Bill