Print Spooler Keeps stopping Automatically (Fixing Guide)
In Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1 Windows 10
“The print spooler service is not running”:-
This problem “Print Spooler service keeps Stopping Automatically”, actually there are many reasons behind that, The main reason is the driver con icting (Please update the printer drivers), however we explained everything in this post, please follow the following steps to get rid of this problem “Print Spooler keeps Stopping Automatically”. If you followed all above steps properly, i am sure about it the problem can not persist any more. Print spooler service stopping automatically, print spooler service is automatically stopping, spooler stop, print spooler stops suddenly, print spooler stopped can’t install printer.
Steps:-
1. Open Services page
(For windows xp) Click on Start and then click on RUN then Type Services.msc in RUN box then hit enter
(For windows 7, 8, Vista) Click on Start and then Type Services.msc in Search box then hit enter
- Find “Print spooler” Service and then Double click on it.
3. You will see a “Stop” button, Stop the Service for while
- Go to “Recovery Tab”
- (Important Step) Change “First Failure” & “Second Failure” Value under “Recovery Tab”
Change the value of “First Failure” to “Restart the Service” Change the value of “Second Failure” to “Restart the Service”
5. Make sure the RPC Service is the dependencies of the “print spooler”
- Then Leave it until next step is completed
- Delete all the print job from this path “c:windowssystem32spoolPRINTERS”
Delete all the les under this following path (make it clean)
c:windowssystem32spoolPRINTERS
8. Now Start the print Spooler Service.
Come again “print spooler” Con guration page and click on “Start” Button.
Restart your computer
If the problem is still persist then you must be try these more Additional Advanced Steps
- (Important Step) Run a command “SFC /scannow” in Command prompt (with Administrative Right)
10. (Important Step) Run one more command “chkdsk /f /r” in Command prompt (with Administrative Right)
11. (Important Step) Delete all unwanted printers from the computer.
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- (Important Step) Make sure all printers are installed with correct drivers “there is not driver con icting”(Please reinstall printer drivers again)
Step 13 : Get the “.dll” Xle name & path which one is making con icting with print spooler service.
Right click on MyComputer and then click on Manage. You’ll get an another window.
Click on the arrow of the “Event Viewer” (to Expand it).
Click on the arrow of the “Windows Logs” (to Expand it).
Click on “Application” under windows Logs.
Now look on the right side pane, there have listed all the system LOGS. Now scroll down/up to nd the error (Red Cross Error) which is related to print spooler service. Once you get it, double click on it to get more details about error (These logs create when system get any error or problem, so please nd the error, that time you get crashed your printer spooler service.)
Now you have the exact error message details. Here, nd the name & path of “.dll” le in this detail.
Now you have the particular “.dll” le name & path which one is doing con icting with print spooler service.
So, stop the conflicting via repair, rename that “.dll” file.
Do appropriate action on that file using following method below.
1. If found “.dll” file is related to printer drivers then you can rename & delete the file, and then reboot your computer and then you can easily reinstall your printer driver.
2. If found “.dll”file is related to any 3rd party application then you can uninstall that application and install it again if you want to use that application. You also can rename & delete the file if it is not related to windows system files any how. After that reboot your
computer once.
3. If found “.dll” file is related to windows system files or location then you must not rename & delete the file, because it maybe harmful for your operating system itself. To fix this issue you have to repair your windows through “SFC/scannow” or “chkdsk” or Combo Fix tool (Comobofix is a third party tool (Free Tool) however it can fix most of the windows issues). After that reboot your computer once.
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