Print spooler disabled

Is the print spooler bombing out or just not starting? I have had numerous problems with print spooler service stopping on windows servers but its always been down to having an incorrect or corrupt print driver

Sure I have a few.  Does the computer have Adobe Installed? If so repair it.

Clean out the C:\Windows\system32\Spool\Printers folder

Disable Point to Print restrictions in The group Policy (gpedit.msc > Administrative > Printers)

Remove all installed printers and remove the drivers from the print server - then re-install the printers

Restart your spooler service and verify it is working

The print spooler works OK while the machine is running if started manually, but is disabled when rebooted.
BCipollone - by Adobe, do you mean adobe reader, flash player, acrobat, or all of them?

Just for clarification, the actual event message says the RPC server is unavailable, error code 0x800706ba

Are the three services set to auto
1) Remote Procedure Call
2) Remote Procedure Call Locator
3) Print Spooler

yes all set to automatic

So you have it set to Automatic, but on reboot it is set to Manual?

Does the RPC Locator have to start before the Print Spooler?

I have it on automatic. Looking at the event viewer, the service starts on bootup, then stops and is changed to disabled.

no it is set to manual by default
look at services.msc whether RPC is started. if rpc started
run this first in cmd   SC CONFIG SPOOLER DEPEND= RPCSS
then try to start spooler. if not success,

go to this key in reg edit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Spooler
look at right side this "DependOnService"  & duble click it.
you will see RPCSS, HTTP are there. remove RPCSS & try to start spooler.
 spooler can start without RPC. but i have not test printing

Might have a driver shot corrupting the spooler....

My standard procedure for removing printers AND thier drivers....

Remove all physical printers.

Once the printer(s) is deleted, go to start>, and type CMD (Right Click, and "Run As Administrator"

net stop spooler
net start spooler

Click Start, and type "Print Management">Print Servers>Local>Drivers>Rt Click a driver and select "Remove Driver Package", and remove them all.....

Note: If this is Anything lower than Windows 7 Professional, use the below command instead of Print Management, as it is not included in lower versions.....

Hit Winkey+R, and paste the following.....

printui /s /t2

It will bring up the classic Drivers tab, familiar with XP. You can remove Drivers from there, after the printers are gone....

Then try and reinstall the network/local printers....

All the other suggestions were tried and didn't succeed.