How to Fix Print Spooler Service Keeps Stopping in Windows 7, 8, & 8.1

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Print Spooler Keeps Stopping

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How to Fix Print Spooler Service Keeps Stopping
in Windows 7, 8, 8.1

• Print Spooler is the backbone of the printing
  process carried out from your PC. It should
  perform flawlessly while your PC is sending
  commands to print certain documents.
  Unfortunately, Print Spooler malfunctions in some
  Windows and doesnt work even after manually
  starting it unless you debug the problem and fix
  it properly. This article clearly shows you how
  to fix automatic stopping problem of Print
  Spooler in Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.
• You will not see any kind of warning messages
  when your Print Spooler has stopped in Windows 8
  and 8.1. When you give the command for printing a
  document from Word, Excel or some other software
  then the options for selecting the appropriate
  printers dont appear. The available printers
  will appear grayed out in the Control Panel as
  shown below. When the print spooler is not
  running, you cannot even see the properties of
  the printer.

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• You will see the following error message in
  previous version of the Windows when you try to
  print or viewprinter properties.
• The print spooler service is not running.
• It simply means that there is something wrong
  with the print spooler service on your PC.

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Steps for Fixing Printer Spooler Service

• Start the print spooler from Services or from
  the command prompt.
• Services can be easily located in the Computer
  Management section. It can be found easily in
  Windows 8/8.1 by searching it with Services.msc.

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• Locate Print Spooler in Services. It might be in
  the stopped state. Start it now.

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• The same process can be done through commands.
  Open command prompt with administrator privileges
  (Run as Administrator).
•  Use command Net start spooler for initiating
  spooler services.

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• To stop printer spooler services, use command
  Net stop spooler.
• If print spooler keeps on stopping again, even
  after restarting it, use the following steps.
  This method is useful when print spooler is
  malfunctioning due to random reasons, even
  though Printer is fine physically and no paper is
  jammed in it.
• You need to clear the print spooler files which
  are temporarily stored in printing jobs. Print
  spooler will restart and will probably run
  smoothly next time. The files are stored in
  Spool-gtPrinters directory that lies in the
  Windows-gtSystem 32 folder of your root directory.
  The queue will be disabled when you clear these
  files.

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