print spooler not running

[richard]

I've tried installing my printer and I'm getting the
error 'print spooler service not running'.
I went into the services application to manually start
the print spooler and am receiving the following error.
Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.

How can I correct this. Will I have to re-install windows
to repair/replace the missing file? Is there an easier way?

Thank you

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Go to the Control Panel and click on Admin Tools. From there, click on
Services. Is there a line called Print Spooler?
--
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"richard" > wrote in message
...
> I've tried installing my printer and I'm getting the
> error 'print spooler service not running'.
> I went into the services application to manually start
> the print spooler and am receiving the following error.
> Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> How can I correct this. Will I have to re-install windows
> to repair/replace the missing file? Is there an easier way?
>
> Thank you
>

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Go to the Control Panel and click on Admin Tools. From there, click on
Services. Is there a line called Print Spooler?
--
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"richard" > wrote in message
...
> I've tried installing my printer and I'm getting the
> error 'print spooler service not running'.
> I went into the services application to manually start
> the print spooler and am receiving the following error.
> Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> How can I correct this. Will I have to re-install windows
> to repair/replace the missing file? Is there an easier way?
>
> Thank you
>

[Richard]

I've already done this... I'm getting the error message
Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.- this
comes up when I try to start the print spooler.

Thank you
>-----Original Message-----
>Go to the Control Panel and click on Admin Tools. From
there, click on
>Services. Is there a line called Print Spooler?
>--
>Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
>www.coribright.com
>
>"richard" > wrote in
message
...
>> I've tried installing my printer and I'm getting the
>> error 'print spooler service not running'.
>> I went into the services application to manually start
>> the print spooler and am receiving the following error.
>> Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
>>
>> How can I correct this. Will I have to re-install
windows
>> to repair/replace the missing file? Is there an easier
way?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>
>
>
>.
>

[Alan Morris\(MSFT\)]

which file cannot be found?

The print spooler consists of

spoolsv.exe
spoolss.dll
localspl.dll
win32spl.dll
winspool.drv
tcpmon.dll
tcpmib.dll
usbmon.dll


The spooler also depends on the Remote Procedure Call service to start.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Richard" > wrote in message
...
> I've already done this... I'm getting the error message
> Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.- this
> comes up when I try to start the print spooler.
>
> Thank you
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Go to the Control Panel and click on Admin Tools. From
> there, click on
> >Services. Is there a line called Print Spooler?
> >--
> >Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
> >www.coribright.com
> >
> >"richard" > wrote in
> message
> ...
> >> I've tried installing my printer and I'm getting the
> >> error 'print spooler service not running'.
> >> I went into the services application to manually start
> >> the print spooler and am receiving the following error.
> >> Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
> >>
> >> How can I correct this. Will I have to re-install
> windows
> >> to repair/replace the missing file? Is there an easier
> way?
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >