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My print spooler has suddenly stopped working on Win 7.
There are no printers visible in Devices and Printers though the total count is still there. When I go to Add a printer i receive the error:
Windows can't open Add Printer. The local print spooler service is not running.
Please restart the spooler or restart the machine
And then when I look at the running services Spooler says:
Failed to Read Description. Error Code: 193
I don't know where to start!
Update:
When starting manually, I get this error:
Windows could not start the Spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1058: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Alan Whitelaw
Posted 2011-05-16T17:48:20.487
Reputation: 462
Is that error what you receive when you try to start it manually? – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T17:56:52.280
@Kyle, added the error I get when manually starting to the question. Cheers – Alan Whitelaw – 2011-05-16T18:18:11.943
Make sure the service is set to login as local system, interact with the desktop, and that it is set to automatic. – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T18:19:13.493
Yes @Kyle, it has all those settings, in fact all the
start,stop... buttons are greyed out now – Alan Whitelaw – 2011-05-16T18:22:38.957Check to make sure that RPC Endpoint mapper is started and the DCOM Server Process Launcher is started. – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T18:24:56.233
Again, both started, the rest of the PC seems to be running OK. – Alan Whitelaw – 2011-05-16T18:28:56.417
1Well everything is configured right maybe something is wrong with windows. Try running sfc/scannow in an elevated cmd window. – Supercereal – 2011-05-16T18:37:45.113