Spooler SubSystem App stops working

I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same error
message.

[Window Title]
Microsoft Windows

[Main Instruction]
Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed

[Content]
A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
notify you if a solution is available.

[Close]

I have Vista Ultimate RTM installed on a D820 and am not experiencing print
spooler issues like you mention. I realize that Ultimate is not Enterprise,
but I can't image they would have different print spooler code...

Lang

"Sachin" <Sachin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90CBD98B-45AA-4B58-9E28-A3D7015AF1C0@microsoft.com...
>I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same
> error
> message.
>
> [Window Title]
> Microsoft Windows
>
> [Main Instruction]
> Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
>
> [Content]
> A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> notify you if a solution is available.
>
> [Close]

I personally don't think it's related to D820 bios. I had similar issue on
D810 running XP SP2. We later found that a mobile network card software was
conflicting with the Print Spooler service. In this instance, I am not able
to locate the offending app. I don't use that mobile connect software
anymore. it must be something else.

"Lang Murphy" wrote:

> I have Vista Ultimate RTM installed on a D820 and am not experiencing print
> spooler issues like you mention. I realize that Ultimate is not Enterprise,
> but I can't image they would have different print spooler code...
>
> Lang
>
> "Sachin" <Sachin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:90CBD98B-45AA-4B58-9E28-A3D7015AF1C0@microsoft.com...
> >I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> > setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> > following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> > starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same
> > error
> > message.
> >
> > [Window Title]
> > Microsoft Windows
> >
> > [Main Instruction]
> > Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
> >
> > [Content]
> > A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> > notify you if a solution is available.
> >
> > [Close]
>

This is often caused by a printer driver failure or buggy printer drivers.

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"Sachin" <Sachin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90CBD98B-45AA-4B58-9E28-A3D7015AF1C0@microsoft.com...
>I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same
> error
> message.
>
> [Window Title]
> Microsoft Windows
>
> [Main Instruction]
> Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
>
> [Content]
> A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> notify you if a solution is available.
>
> [Close]

I am having a simular issue but it is because of the Dell Printer. I was able to use my friends wireless HP printer on vista. I just wish Dell would hurry up with the Vista drivers

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Windows Vista RTM
MS Office 2007 RTM
"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ACA56E63-D32B-440E-BE64-18CA5B6149ED@microsoft.com...
I have Vista Ultimate RTM installed on a D820 and am not experiencing print
spooler issues like you mention. I realize that Ultimate is not Enterprise,
but I can't image they would have different print spooler code...

Lang

"Sachin" <Sachin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90CBD98B-45AA-4B58-9E28-A3D7015AF1C0@microsoft.com...
>I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same
> error
> message.
>
> [Window Title]
> Microsoft Windows
>
> [Main Instruction]
> Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
>
> [Content]
> A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> notify you if a solution is available.
>
> [Close]

I'm seeing the same thing here with HP workstations. It appears to be
conflicting with an RPC process?

"Sachin" wrote:

> I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same error
> message.
>
> [Window Title]
> Microsoft Windows
>
> [Main Instruction]
> Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
>
> [Content]
> A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> notify you if a solution is available.
>
> [Close]

I don't think this has anything to do with printer drivers. I have seen this
on a couple of HP workstations now, one of which had 0 printers installed,
the other (mine) has only network connected Xerox machines. The process
quits while there is no printing pending or otherwise?

"Sachin" wrote:

> I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same error
> message.
>
> [Window Title]
> Microsoft Windows
>
> [Main Instruction]
> Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
>
> [Content]
> A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> notify you if a solution is available.
>
> [Close]

Not sure if you ever found a solution for this, but here's another suggestion
that worked for me. I spent 3 solid days trying absolutely everything I could
find. This was also on a full clean install almost from the word go. So I
looked in the even log as to what was causinng the spollsv.exe to crash, and
it said "localspl.dll". So I took that dll from another machine that was
working fine and replaced it (you may need to take ownership of the file
first) and voila! 3 days of headaches and it's all working

This is not a solution I found anywhere else, so could help you. I am
presuming that the file didn't copy over in the install correctly, despite
being the second time I installed with that disc!

Hope it helps.

"Bill Bray" wrote:

> I don't think this has anything to do with printer drivers. I have seen this
> on a couple of HP workstations now, one of which had 0 printers installed,
> the other (mine) has only network connected Xerox machines. The process
> quits while there is no printing pending or otherwise?
>
> "Sachin" wrote:
>
> > I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> > setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> > following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> > starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same error
> > message.
> >
> > [Window Title]
> > Microsoft Windows
> >
> > [Main Instruction]
> > Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
> >
> > [Content]
> > A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> > notify you if a solution is available.
> >
> > [Close]

Sorry, that should read spoolsv.exe.

"Steve Foxon" wrote:

> Not sure if you ever found a solution for this, but here's another suggestion
> that worked for me. I spent 3 solid days trying absolutely everything I could
> find. This was also on a full clean install almost from the word go. So I
> looked in the even log as to what was causinng the spollsv.exe to crash, and
> it said "localspl.dll". So I took that dll from another machine that was
> working fine and replaced it (you may need to take ownership of the file
> first) and voila! 3 days of headaches and it's all working
>
> This is not a solution I found anywhere else, so could help you. I am
> presuming that the file didn't copy over in the install correctly, despite
> being the second time I installed with that disc!
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> "Bill Bray" wrote:
>
> > I don't think this has anything to do with printer drivers. I have seen this
> > on a couple of HP workstations now, one of which had 0 printers installed,
> > the other (mine) has only network connected Xerox machines. The process
> > quits while there is no printing pending or otherwise?
> >
> > "Sachin" wrote:
> >
> > > I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> > > setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> > > following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> > > starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same error
> > > message.
> > >
> > > [Window Title]
> > > Microsoft Windows
> > >
> > > [Main Instruction]
> > > Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
> > >
> > > [Content]
> > > A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> > > notify you if a solution is available.
> > >
> > > [Close]

And also to add, the localspl.dll is in the System32 folder.

"Steve Foxon" wrote:

> Sorry, that should read spoolsv.exe.
>
> "Steve Foxon" wrote:
>
> > Not sure if you ever found a solution for this, but here's another suggestion
> > that worked for me. I spent 3 solid days trying absolutely everything I could
> > find. This was also on a full clean install almost from the word go. So I
> > looked in the even log as to what was causinng the spollsv.exe to crash, and
> > it said "localspl.dll". So I took that dll from another machine that was
> > working fine and replaced it (you may need to take ownership of the file
> > first) and voila! 3 days of headaches and it's all working
> >
> > This is not a solution I found anywhere else, so could help you. I am
> > presuming that the file didn't copy over in the install correctly, despite
> > being the second time I installed with that disc!
> >
> > Hope it helps.
> >
> > "Bill Bray" wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think this has anything to do with printer drivers. I have seen this
> > > on a couple of HP workstations now, one of which had 0 printers installed,
> > > the other (mine) has only network connected Xerox machines. The process
> > > quits while there is no printing pending or otherwise?
> > >
> > > "Sachin" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am using Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. I am having troubles with
> > > > setting up printers on my Dell 820 Laptop. As soon as I logon, I receive
> > > > following error. I tried manually restarting the Print Spooler service. It
> > > > starts fine but within couple of minutes it stoppes again with the same error
> > > > message.
> > > >
> > > > [Window Title]
> > > > Microsoft Windows
> > > >
> > > > [Main Instruction]
> > > > Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed
> > > >
> > > > [Content]
> > > > A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will
> > > > notify you if a solution is available.
> > > >
> > > > [Close]