tklingman
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Printing from IE crashes local print spooler.
Whenever I attempt to print (I am on Windows 7 machine, 32 bit) from any site using IE (Version 9.0.8112.16421) it causes the local print spooler to crash (I have to restart to access attach printers). I can, however, print if I launch IE as an administrator or login as a user with admin rights or if I print from Mozilla or Chrome. I do not have this problem on any other machines on our network.
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Spooler crashes when I login as another user with same access rights on problem machine. Does not happen when I login either under Administrator profile or launch IE as Administrator under problem profile(s). Given that, do you think it makes sense to recreate user profile (I assume you mean Windows user profile) since it seems to impact any profile on this machine that does not have Administrator rights? The print spooler service actually will stop when pages printed from IE (I don't need to stop. When user has stopped using computer today, I will check for SHD or SPL files (I don't think there was anything in there yesterday when we were troublehshooting).
Since we can rule out that it is not user specific, rather permission specific, there is no need to recreate the user profile. Is the printer connection coming from a print server or network connection, or is it locally attached by USB or Parallel?
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This resolved issue.
A couple things to try, first, can you login as another user that has the same access rights on the problem machine to see if the spooler crashes for that account?
If not, then it may be the IE settings for the problem user are corrupt. Recreating the user profile may resolve this.
Also, you can try stopping the Print Spooler service, go to C:\Windows\System32\spool\