How are you connected to the printer?
Most spooler failures are caused by print drivers performing invalid
functions and corrupting the process memory of the spooler.
Is there a pending print job that starts "printing"? Look in
\windows\system32\spool\printers
the spool files are the spl file that contains the data of the job and the
shd file that contains information about which printer to send the spl file.
If you have these files move them (or delete them if they are not needed)
and start the spooler.
if that does not work you'll most likely need to delete and reinstall the
print driver. Be sure to run the vendor uninstall program if you ran a
setup program when initially adding the printer. If the printer is a
Lexmark be sure to follow the special Lexmark steps.
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm
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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"Stephen @ ZennHAUS" <stephen.huisman@zennhaus.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys
>
> Have an Acer laptop running Windows Vista with all current updates
> installed including SP1. The last 10 days, the Print Spooler service
> fails. It starts no problem, but shortly after it fails, restarts, fails
> again etc until the service control policy stops it and notifies the user.
> The error messages it gives do not offer any information nor any further
> online information about what could be the problem. It is a stand alone
> machine with a wireless connection via an ADSL router/modem to the
> internet. The errors that show up in the even logs are 7031 and 7034 with
> no specific detail and there are no other errors in the logs relating to
> the print spooler or printing.
>
> If anyone can shed some light on this I would be grateful.
>
> Stephen @ ZennHAUS
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