Re: The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly.

Alan?

"Steven Sinclair" wrote:

The machine was originally installed from Dell with this problem, even though
there were no printers (or printer drivers) installed. After a couple of days
of trying to figure out what the problem was, I completely wiped the hard
drive and reinstalled the OS. To my chagrin, the issue is still occurring.

There were no registry entries for print drivers at that path.

I'm at a complete loss of what to do at this point. I have never before seen
this occur on any of our other 300 Dell machines...some preinstalled, some
custom installed.

Thanx.


"Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:

Did you perform the OS installation or was this from Dell? Dell normally
bundles printers with their systems. Even if you did not purchase the
printer, some printer drivers may be installed from Dell.

Be sure to check the registry for installed print drivers since you can't
use the spooler to perform this task

HLM\SYSTEM\CurrentContolSet\Control\Printers\Enviroments\Windows NT
x86\drivers\

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

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"Steven Sinclair" <StevenSinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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1. Yep...tried the sfc command...no change.
2. I have no "PostSPUpgrade" key present.
3. Reinstalling the SP and updates made no difference.

Unfortunately, I don't think the spooler service is actually crashing...I
may have misspoken when I first posted. Here's what I have...

Dell OptiPlex 210L
Pentium IV 2.8GHz
150GB SATA HDD
1GB DDR RAM
WinXPProSP2

This is a fresh install of the operating system. There is no other
software
installed on this workstation yet.

My print spooler service is stoping and starting itself approximately
every
60 seconds and I haven't even installed any printers yet.

I have pulled the following events from my system event log (in reverse
order). These same six events occur over and over infinitely:

-------------------------
Date: 06/02/2006 Source: Service Control Manager
Time: 7:57:06 AM Category: None
Type: Error Event ID: 7031
User: N/A
Computer: DO210L

Description:
The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1
time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000
milliseconds:
Restart the service.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
-------------------------
Date: 06/02/2006 Source: Service Control Manager
Time: 7:58:06 AM Category: None
Type: Information Event ID: 7036
User: N/A
Computer: DO210L

Description:
The Print Spooler service entered the running state.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
-------------------------
Date: 06/02/2006 Source: Service Control Manager
Time: 7:58:07 AM Category: None
Type: Information Event ID: 7036
User: N/A
Computer: DO210L

Description:
The Print Spooler service entered the stopped state.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
-------------------------
Date: 06/02/2006 Source: Service Control Manager
Time: 7:58:07 AM Category: None
Type: Information Event ID: 7036
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: DO210L

Description:
The Print Spooler service was successfully sent a stop control.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
-------------------------
Date: 06/02/2006 Source: Service Control Manager
Time: 7:58:08 AM Category: None
Type: Information Event ID: 7036
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: DO210L

Description:
The Print Spooler service was successfully sent a start control.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
-------------------------
Date: 06/02/2006 Source: Service Control Manager
Time: 7:58:08 AM Category: None
Type: Information Event ID: 7036
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: DO210L

Description:
The Print Spooler service entered the running state.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
-------------------------

It is an endless cycle that keeps repeating itself.

Any ideas?

Thanx.



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