Could not start print spooler service on local computer error 1068

[bruce steele]

Printer Problems in Windows XP sp3
Dell Personal Printer all in one A940
After trying to speed up an older computer running Windows XP
I may have cut off the Print Spooler (or it was already off ?)
I went back to Services dialog box & selected Print Spooler
I clicked the "Start" link at left of service list & got a message tgat said
"could not start print spooler service on local computer error 1068 The dependency service or group failed to start."
Printer is still not working can anyone help?

 

[DelJo63]

On Win/7 the dependencies are

• HTTP
  
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
• DCOM Server Process Launcher
• RPC Endpoint Mapper

Manually start each on and set to AUTOSTART as you go.
If one fails, then that is the root problem.

 

[bruce steele]

My OS is Windows XP

 

[DelJo63]

Yea, I saw that - - but start somewhere to see and prove the dependencies will infact start for themselves.