Thursday, June 14, 2012

Troubleshoot a Printer Spooler Missing Error

Instructions
  1. Click the "Start" button and choose "Control Panel" from the list. Double-click the "Administrative Tools" icon. If that icon is not visible, click the "Classic View" option to display the full list of control panel icons.
  2. Double-click the "Administrative Tools" icon, then double-click the "Services" icon. Scroll down to the "Print Spooler" service, and double-click it.
  3. Use the drop-down box next to "Startup Type" to change the startup option to Automatic. Changing the service to automatic ensures that it will start each time the computer is restarted, and will remain running until it is manually stopped.
  4. Right-click the "Print Spooler" service and choose "Start" to start the service manually. You can also simply reboot your computer and allow the service to start up automatically.
  5. Send a print job to the printer and wait for it to print. If the job does not print, or if you get an error message, go back to the print spooler service and make sure it is running.

Other shortcut to open services.msc is:
Press windows+r keys .
on run type:  services.msc and press enter
Scroll down to "Print Spooler" services
Chane the startup option to Automatic
Click on Start and Apply

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