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Print Spooler stoppping randomly.

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DrB0b

IS-IT--Management
May 19, 2011
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Gentleman,

I have taken a XP Pro box, cloned it and added a new printer to it. It has functioned fine for a month since that but now randomly the Print Spooler service stops. I tried uninstalling all printers and reinstalling with no luck. Now it is becoming more frequent, like once a day. I go back in to services.msc and start it and it works fine.

Basically what Im looking for is a bat file that will restart that service from the command line. Since I dont know the command, that is the biggest stopping point. Granted this is just a temp fix until when Im back next week and can look into the real issue.

"You don't know what you got, till its gone..
80's hair band Cinderella or ode to data backups???
 
@echo off
echo Restarting Print Spooler
net start spooler






That was all you needed in a bat file. If you need to stop it: net stop spooler.

"You don't know what you got, till its gone..
80's hair band Cinderella or ode to data backups???
 
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