How to Cancel or Delete a Stuck Print Job in the Windows Print Queue

smother

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  • Jan 27, 2009
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    i wanted to clear more than 12000 Printer jobs in a Restaurants POS printer.
    this happened because the users have turned off the Printer and print all the Transactions.. :frown: :frown:
    because of huge queue it does't show the Pending Jobs when open the Printer..
    when they Turned on the printer it started to print all the pending printer jobs :no:

    so i wanted to find a way to delete all the jobs without Removing the printer..
    Here we go i found a solution and wanted to share with you ;) .... in any case this happened to you just follow these simple steps. :):)



    1. XP – click ‘Start’ then click ‘Run’ and in the Run window type CMD then press ‘OK’ – this opens a Command Prompt window. Now skip to Step 3

    2. Vista/7 – click ‘Start’ and type Command in the search box. Right click on the ‘Command Prompt’ result in the search results above it and select ‘Run As Administrator’ – this opens a Command Prompt window

    3. All version of Windows – in the Command Prompt window:

    4. Type net stop spooler then press the Enter key

    5. Type del %windir%\system32\spool\printers\*.* /q then press the Enter key (Note: the only spaces in this command are a single space between del and %, and a single space between * and /q)

    6. Type net start spooler then press the Enter key

    7. Type exit then press the Enter key to exit the Command Prompt window


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    Po Di-Al

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