Lost print spool during SP2 upgrade

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Did you ever find a resolution for this? I also have the same problem now and
can't find a fix. If you have a solution, I'd be most apprciative if you
could post it.

Thank You



"dab1477" wrote:

> During my SP2 upgrade, I seemed to have lost all my printers in the Printer
> and Fax folder. I attempted to reinstall printers, but when I click the ADD
> PRINTER icon, I get the error message: OPeration could not be completed.
> Printer spool is not running.
>
> How do I remedy this issue? I even lost my access to my home network printer!

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

Hi Cari,

Yep... I did try that, but it turns off immediately. I have it set to Auto
start, but it doesn't. I've gone through the REGEDIT and deleted all printer
drivers. I've deleted all traces (as far as I know) of printer drivers from
the Win32 folder. Seems like the problem started with the SP2 update.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Start the Spooler!
>
> http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article%20Nine.htm
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
> www.coribright.com
>
> "dastreb" <dastreb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:03427541-FD03-4AB6-8842-61E36ABE965A@microsoft.com...
> > Did you ever find a resolution for this? I also have the same problem now
> > and
> > can't find a fix. If you have a solution, I'd be most apprciative if you
> > could post it.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> >
> >
> > "dab1477" wrote:
> >
> >> During my SP2 upgrade, I seemed to have lost all my printers in the
> >> Printer
> >> and Fax folder. I attempted to reinstall printers, but when I click the
> >> ADD
> >> PRINTER icon, I get the error message: OPeration could not be completed.
> >> Printer spool is not running.
> >>
> >> How do I remedy this issue? I even lost my access to my home network
> >> printer!
> >
>
>
>
>