How to Clear "Printer Spooler" without Restart

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Haazi

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  • Jan 21, 2007
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    Normally When you give the print command and if printout didn't come out (most of the time when printer in offline).or some other situation

    the print queue will appear in Printer spooler window
    You can find this windows in taskbar notification area or you can open the "Printers & Faxes" in control panel.

    You can delete the Print queue, using delete command

    But

    Sometime you cant remove some file in Print queue .. it will show deleting ..but its not

    in this case..you can use this command in Ms-DOS

    Go to RUN -> type CMD

    and type the below commands in DOS one by one

    Code:
    [I]net stop spooler
    del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
    del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
    net start spooler[/I]

    Now you can Delete the print queue without restart your PC


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