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Try to find out what's causing it (restart server, still 50%). Remove all unnecessary printer. If it doesn't help, remove ALL printers one by one, see which one is causing it. Sadly, after that you have to add them all back, except the one that was causing it (use newer drivers).
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Try to find out what's causing it (restart server, still 50%). Remove all unnecessary printer. If it doesn't help, remove ALL printers one by one, see which one is causing it. Sadly, after that you have to add them all back, except the one that was causing it (use newer drivers).

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server 2008 enterprise, terminal server. 32bit o.s. &nbsp;The spoolsv.exe consistently takes 50% cpu usage. Is their anyway to lower this cpu usage.
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server 2008 enterprise, terminal server. 32bit o.s.  The spoolsv.exe consistently takes 50% cpu usage. Is their anyway to lower this cpu usage.

spoolsv.exe cpu usage

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.