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Thanks for that Pat. I had already deleted all the printer drivers, on reboot the spooler service started and continued to run ok. Then it was just a case of getting the most up to date drivers from HP and reinstalling them. Now everything is working ok, but it was a headache trying to find the source of the problem. Once again thanks for your reply.
"Pat [MSFT]" wrote:
> On the good news side, it is highly unlikely that the SCM (Service Control
> Manager) is causing the failure. The way the SCM works is basically to call
> a function in the service process (exe/dll) and basically say 'start' or
> 'stop' or whatever. The SCM doesn't actually _do_ the starting, stopping,
> etc. That is entirely up to the service. Think of the SCM as an alarm
> clock. When the alarm goes off, it is up to whomever is supposed to be
> listening for the alarm to do something. A service may choose to "snooze"
> (i.e. not get up when the alarm goes off) in which case you get those error
> messages in the Event Log that a "Service Failed To Start..."
>
> The spooler service handles things like loading your printer drivers. It is
> possible that a recent change has exposed a problem in a printer driver that
> you have installed. I would recommend checking w/the vendor to see if they
> have an updated driver available (this just happened to me on my home
> machine, so I understand). Some printer vendors (and other hardware
> vendors) post their driver updates via Windows Update, so you can try
> running that first as it may be easier.
>
> Pat
>
>
>
> "Noakser" <Noakser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2066C0BE-64CE-4F74-82FD-0B29B81D7050@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all, I am getting an error after recent windows updates, the spooler
> > service starts then terminates unexpectedly. If you start it it just fails
> > again. I have a feeling it has something to do with an update corrrupted
> > the service control manager in some way. Does anyone know how to rectify
> > this problem?
>
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