Printer Service Stoips

[Guest john.loconte@noaa.gov]

I'm running win2k3. Two to three times a day the print service stops and I

have to manually reset it. The event log only says that the service has

stopped and must be restarted. I can't see what's causing it.

Thanks for any help...

[Guest leew [MVP]]

Re: Printer Service Stoips

 

john.loconte@noaa.gov wrote:

> I'm running win2k3. Two to three times a day the print service stops and I

> have to manually reset it. The event log only says that the service has

> stopped and must be restarted. I can't see what's causing it.

> Thanks for any help...

 

In my experience, this is usually because of bad drivers (I've also seen

inkjet drivers cause MAJOR problems if you have any inkjet printers -

though in fairness, the last time I had any major opportunity to explore

these problems was 3-4 years ago.

 

I would probably suggest reviewing who is printing to what printer at

the time the spooler crashes.

 

You can also set the properties of the spooler to auto restart. Or

create a small script and schedule it to run to check if the spooler is

running and start it if it isn't. (Better to find the root cause though).

 

-Lee