pyromaster114
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Okay so I've been trying to find an answer to this for a few days now.
I have a Vista x64 computer here. It's pretty cluttered up, like 50 applications and all the original bloatware are still installed, but the print spool service is now suddenly malfunctioning.
Whenever I print something, or try to, it appears in the print que for about 1.5 seconds, and then disappears.
While it's in the print que it says "spooling" under the status, but then it disappears without ever going to the "printing" phase.
I really have never seen such a strange and completely un-solveable problem.
This happens no matter what printer we connect.
If I connect the printer to another computer, Vista finds the drivers and installs them, and the printer works fine on that computer.
Tried:
Uninstalling printers (all of them), multiple times. Removed them from the printers list in the control panel, and the device manager.
Disconnected printer, restarted computer, and then plugged them back in.
Tried to find drivers from manufacturer, but they just simply say that windows has the drivers for the printers, because they're old. So I have to use the drivers in windows, and there are no available updates.
Tried windows update (With and without printers plugged in.)
I have a Vista x64 computer here. It's pretty cluttered up, like 50 applications and all the original bloatware are still installed, but the print spool service is now suddenly malfunctioning.
Whenever I print something, or try to, it appears in the print que for about 1.5 seconds, and then disappears.
While it's in the print que it says "spooling" under the status, but then it disappears without ever going to the "printing" phase.
I really have never seen such a strange and completely un-solveable problem.
This happens no matter what printer we connect.
If I connect the printer to another computer, Vista finds the drivers and installs them, and the printer works fine on that computer.
Tried:
Uninstalling printers (all of them), multiple times. Removed them from the printers list in the control panel, and the device manager.
Disconnected printer, restarted computer, and then plugged them back in.
Tried to find drivers from manufacturer, but they just simply say that windows has the drivers for the printers, because they're old. So I have to use the drivers in windows, and there are no available updates.
Tried windows update (With and without printers plugged in.)