You have a corrupted printer driver in there somewhere..... try blitzing
them as per Bruce Sanderson's site at:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

Should you get a 1068 Service or Dependency error, see steps 15 through 17
at the bottom of that page.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"D-man" <Dman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1BC85DBB-7396-4031-A524-EDC2B9FB73C2@microsoft.com...
> Hi, Cari, thanks for your reply. When running that command, we get "The
> request service has already been started." I've attempted several times to
> re-start it under adminitrative tools/services.
>
> Keep me posted if there is fix to this. Thanks much.
> --
> Thanks,
> D-man
>
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> What is the exact message returned when you start it with the command
>> prompt?
>> http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm
>> --
>> Cari (MS-MVP)
>> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
>> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>>
>> "D-man" <Dman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3BDA2CF5-2996-44AE-95B3-8DC751DDF768@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi, Folks - Unable to print anything. PRinter Spooler service does not
>> > respond. I've restarted the print spooler service in administrative
>> > tools
>> > several times, bit it will not allow me to print anything or to view
>> > propertiies, add a printer, nothing.
>> >
>> > "Server Properties cannot be viewed. The local print spooler service is
>> > not
>> > running. Please restart the spooler or restart the machine."
>> >
>> > thanks
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thanks,
>> > D-man
>>
>>