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Is the print spooler running from the service applet?
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Is the print spooler running from the service applet?

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Yes, it is running (all printers on network are connected via CAT5e, there are no local printers)
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Yes, it is running (all printers on network are connected via CAT5e, there are no local printers)

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Thanks, have done and am just restarting the machine to see if it has helped. It said inside the properties it was stopped?
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Thanks, have done and am just restarting the machine to see if it has helped. It said inside the properties it was stopped?

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Hi,<br />
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After I had installed Windows 2003 SBS, I decided to free up some IRQs for a remote storage device (Freecom Classic SL Network) and I removed devices from the server at BIOS level (the motherboard is a high end workstation MB) such as the sound card, parallel etc. However now at every startup i get the following message:<br />
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The Parallel port driver service failed to start ...<br />
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Is there a way to tell the server not to look for the parallel port - it doesnt appear anywhere on the device manager. 
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Hi,

After I had installed Windows 2003 SBS, I decided to free up some IRQs for a remote storage device (Freecom Classic SL Network) and I removed devices from the server at BIOS level (the motherboard is a high end workstation MB) such as the sound card, parallel etc. However now at every startup i get the following message:

The Parallel port driver service failed to start ...

Is there a way to tell the server not to look for the parallel port - it doesnt appear anywhere on the device manager. 

Parallel Port Problems - Disabled in BIOS (2003 SBS)

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).