Printing Issues

[G Wong]

Can't add a printer. Says that "Operation cannot be
completed." This might be because the spooler is not
starting. The spooler is not starting because there is a
service in there call PMOBSERV.exe running. Don't know
what PMOBSERV.exe is exactly...

any ideas?

Thanks.

[Mary Sauer]

Might try a spyware program such as Ad Aware or Spybot. I can't find any reference to
PMOBSERV; as close as I can come is Palomar Observatory, it is their ID number (PMOB)
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"G Wong" > wrote in message
...
> Can't add a printer. Says that "Operation cannot be
> completed." This might be because the spooler is not
> starting. The spooler is not starting because there is a
> service in there call PMOBSERV.exe running. Don't know
> what PMOBSERV.exe is exactly...
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks.

[G Wong]

Thank you for your response Mary.
The problem has been fixed by killing / stopping /
deleting all the instances of PMOBServe.exe in the
registry. And everything seems to be working fine. I did
a google search, and searched the Microsoft knowledge
base, but did not find any reference to it.

G Wong

>-----Original Message-----
>Might try a spyware program such as Ad Aware or Spybot.
I can't find any reference to
>PMOBSERV; as close as I can come is Palomar Observatory,
it is their ID number (PMOB)
>--
>Mary Sauer MS MVP
>http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/
>http://www.mvps.org/msauer/getting_started.htm
>news://msnews.microsoft.com
>"G Wong" > wrote in
message
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>> Can't add a printer. Says that "Operation cannot be
>> completed." This might be because the spooler is not
>> starting. The spooler is not starting because there is
a
>> service in there call PMOBSERV.exe running. Don't know
>> what PMOBSERV.exe is exactly...
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
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