Spool service will not start

[Wh1sp3r]

I recently installed a new printer on our Windows 2000 Server box and now the Spool Service is dead. I used the HP Netword Printer Wizard and it told me it could not find an appropriate driver, so I went to setup the printer manually only to find an empty printer list ! When I try to add a printer, it says that the subsystem is not availaible. The spool service is down, and everytime I start it, it looks like it's running fine, but as soon as I go to Control Panel - Printers, the service shuts down giving an event ID of 7031. Have you ever encountered this problem ?

 

[kmcferrin]

http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=7031&eventno=465&source=Service Control Manager&phase=1

There are a couple of instances listed where the Spooler service generates this error message. Several of them appear to have hotfixes from Microsoft.

 

[Wh1sp3r]

Thanks, I had to manually remove entries from the registry and delete some files that were causing the service to stop responding.