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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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I have uninstalled the SP2, returning to the SP1.
Now the option "Add Printer Wizard" works, but the
printers continue to be "invisible", also those just
reinstalled.

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When you start the Print Spooler, what error message appears on the screen?
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"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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No errors are displayed!

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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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I am havinmg the same problem with all my printers
installed. Two physical printers and Adobe Acrobat. I
restored my system to before installing SP2 and they are
back, but my MS Office 2003 will not work withour SP2.
Any patches for this issue would be great.
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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

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Have you installed any printers?

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"Paolo" <Paolo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A2D962F6-2DA6-430F-BF5E-DB8603D2A295@microsoft.com...
> 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

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