Spooler Randomly Stopping

[jdemmi]

Windows 2000 and Citrix XPe. Plain and simple....the spooler service randomly stops. Any ideas?

 

[tk36]

Hi
We are running WinNT 4 TSE (SP6) and Metaframe 1.8, we used to have (or might still have) the same problem with Spooler Service keeps stopping. I reckon it's some printers with drivers that the TSE are not happy with (just guessing here). But what I did is schedule the spooler service to start at particular times (and every time the servers are rebooted), just to make sure that the service is running most of the time.
Might not be what you want, but while you are waiting for the good answer, this should get the service going.

 

[Koelie]

Completely right. I had the same problem and restarting the spooler service gave the Citrix server (Nt4 sp5/MF1.8) an astonishing good performance. Because of that The server need not to be rebooted anymore! I used a batch file for this:

soon 7200 "%0"
net stop spooler
Timeout.exe 5
echo y | del m:\wtsrv\system32\spool\printers\*.*
net start spooler
exit

Soon.exe is a small program to have an interval of two hours going....

Good luck!

Koelie