Uninstall printer

[kathl]

Hello,
i know how to uninstall but when i try to do take the dell printer out it says it is still in need of finishing a priting job it is not even plugged in we no longer have it so what do i do ? help!!!

 

[Saga Lout]

Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums

You need to turn off the Print Spooler Service to flush the old jobs out of it. Use your Windows key and R together to bring up the Run box then type services.msc into the box and hit Enter. Scroll through the list of Services to Print Spooler and double click it. Click on the Stop button then Apply and OK and restart the computer. The Service will have restarted but the old print jobs will have disappeared.

 

[aford10]

Another option would be to just open the print queue, and remove the print job.

 

[aford10]

This topic has been moved from the section Forum Feedback to section Computer Peripherals by Aford10