Guest Bill Melke Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 I was trying to upgrade Internet Explorer when the system froze. Since then, every time I started the computer, it would hang. I found the guilty process to be the spool server using 99% of the CPU. If I stop the print spooler the problem goes away. I looked at spoolsv.exe and it has not been modified since Friday, June 10, 2005. Any suggestions? THANKS -- Bill
Guest Richard Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 RE: Print Spooler hangs the system Do you have any print jobs waiting to print?? Delete the jobs and check the following location - C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS delete whats in it. Check for viruses also. "Bill Melke" wrote: > I was trying to upgrade Internet Explorer when the system froze. > Since then, every time I started the computer, it would hang. I found the > guilty process to be the spool server using 99% of the CPU. If I stop the > print spooler the problem goes away. I looked at spoolsv.exe and it has not > been modified since Friday, June 10, 2005. > Any suggestions? > > THANKS > -- > Bill
Guest Bill Melke Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 RE: Print Spooler hangs the system Deleting the files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS did the trick. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! -- Bill "Richard" wrote: > Do you have any print jobs waiting to print?? Delete the jobs and check the > following location - C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS delete whats in it. > Check for viruses also. > > > > "Bill Melke" wrote: > > > I was trying to upgrade Internet Explorer when the system froze. > > Since then, every time I started the computer, it would hang. I found the > > guilty process to be the spool server using 99% of the CPU. If I stop the > > print spooler the problem goes away. I looked at spoolsv.exe and it has not > > been modified since Friday, June 10, 2005. > > Any suggestions? > > > > THANKS > > -- > > Bill
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