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Win XP: suicidal Print Spooler Service

Asked by Ronino in Windows XP Operating System, Printers

Tags: print spooler, event id 7034


Out of the blue, one of my workstations lost all of its printers. Turns out the print spooler service was not running. When I try to start the service, it works. As soon as I try to use one of the printers, or even see a list of the available printers in Control Panel / Printers and Faxes, the service dies again, and all the printers disappear.

It has been doing that for 4 days. There have been no updates or software installs on the machine for 2 weeks prior to the first failure.

The only errors I get in the event log are listed below. (actually, 1 error, coming up several times per day)

At the time the error occurred, the workstation was Win XP Pro SP2, with IE6. I have tried a system restore to a previous date - same behavior. Then I installed SP3 and IE7. Same behavior.

I can't seem to find a solution (or even a cause) for this behavior. I cannot remove the printer drivers so I can reinstall them 1 by 1.

The only EE threads I found on the topic led eventually to a full OS reinstall - I am trying to avoid that.

Please advise - thanks

Dell laptop
Pentium 4, 2Gb RAM
USB docking station
1 HP Laserjet 1012, USB, local
1 HO Color LJ 2600, network,
a Brother MFC
a networked office copier 
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Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Service Control Manager
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	7034
Date:		8/10/2009
Time:		11:07:13 AM
User:		N/A
Computer:	PC-2
Description:
The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 4 time(s).
 
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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