It sounds like the previous driver is causing the spooler service to
terminate.

Bruce has some value pointers.

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

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"Larry Dodd" <larryddodd@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I upgraded my machine from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate and things in the
>printing department are not going well. I see none of the printers that I
>had installed previously on my machine so I try to Add Printer and I get
>the error message "Windows can't open Add Printer Operation could not be
>completed (Error 0x000006be)" I am not sure what is causing this problem
>but when it does this the Print Spooler service stops and I have to restart
>the service. I can't get any printers to install on this machine because I
>can't ever get in the Add Printer wizard. Please help!!