Prin ter folder is empty; Add printer wizard doesn't work

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I have just ended to install SP2 on a system WindowsXP SP1.
Before the updating it resulted installed a printer; now
this printer is not more present in the list of the
printers.
Besides, the option of addition printing it doesn't work.
I have tried to stop and restart the spooling service, but
it is not enough.
I have also tried uselessly the reassigning of the
typology of the users.
I remember that this problem also introduced him with
Windows2K.

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I forgot: the printer is listed by other programs, what
Belarc Advisor, Fresh Diagnose, etc.

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When you start the Print Spooler, what error message appears on the screen?
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Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Paolo" <paololrp@tiscali.it> wrote in message
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>I have just ended to install SP2 on a system WindowsXP SP1.
> Before the updating it resulted installed a printer; now
> this printer is not more present in the list of the
> printers.
> Besides, the option of addition printing it doesn't work.
> I have tried to stop and restart the spooling service, but
> it is not enough.
> I have also tried uselessly the reassigning of the
> typology of the users.
> I remember that this problem also introduced him with
> Windows2K.
>
>

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Windows, the marvelous one!
As it often happens, in inexplicable way, the things stop
working...
.... and then, in way as many inexplicable, they start over
working!
As last beach, I have reinstalled the SP2, and immediately
after the reboot of the system, in the printer folder
there were again the printers that had shaped!
Moral: as happened with Windows 2000, also with Windows XP
can be enough to repeat the installation of the updatings!
Question: when it is that Windows will become "really"
stable?

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But doesn't end here!
Obviously the problem was returned and on some systems the re-installation
of the "Service Pack 2" has not resolved the problem.
In more, such problem also introduces him on some systems "Windows 2000",
therefore not only on "Windows XP".
I have tried to resolve the problem as suggested by various resolutions of
the Microsoft knowledge base", but them had not worked:
1) restoration of the "monitor of the local ports to the value localspl.dll";
2) elimination of the various present dlls in %SystemRoot%.
I have noticed that the problem introduces more frequently on systems in
which I have been installed "particular" programs, for instance:
1) Real VNC;
2) Pragma TelNet Manager;
3) Symantec pcAnyWhere.
Do you have other suggestions - except, obviously, that of re-installation
of the Operating System?
Thank you