Printer services is disabled and will not restart

[southerly]

My Win2k print services subsystem will not restart. It is complaining about a dependency not being available or marked for deletion. I tried reinstalling the Lexmark print driver I think the print services are depending upon, but, the Lexmark driver complains it cannot install because the print services susbsystem is not running.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Give this a try

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324757

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[macten88]

If it involves the print spooler service take a look at this:

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

 

[southerly]

Hello,
Thanks for the detailed responses. Is the objective to locate any instances of Lexmark and delete these from the registry where I find them? I have followed the instructions to the section on registry section Version-x. In my case I have a Version-2 and Version-3 registry locations. Am I to delete the Lexmark entries there as well?

 

[macten88]

I used Bruce Sanderson's directions a few years ago and it worked. As to your question, I found this:

'delete all the sub-keys inside Version-2 and Version-3, but not these keys themselves'

 

[southerly]

Thanks, I will try this...