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Old October 16th 08, 03:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Pantsy
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Default Print Spooler Errors/Problems-You Wont BELIEVE The Cause

I've tried doing this several times and I still can't print to my printer and
the Shockwave files keep coming back. Anybody have any ideas?

"California4x4" wrote:


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California4x4



In windows\system32\spool\printer I found two files that did NOT belong
there. How they got there is anyone's guess. They we 0002.SPL and
0002.SHD, both of which are Shockwave Flash objects.

When I deleted these (and it took some doing) EVERYTHING returned to normal.

Apparently the Spooler does NOT know what to do with these file types in the
..\printer folder (understandable) so it kept chewing and chewing and chewing
and chewing on them to the point where I couldn't bring up my list of
printers, couldn't reinstall printer drivers, kept getting DeviceIO
Notification popups, constantly got SPOOLSV.EXE "could not read" memory error
instructions, and so forth during shutdown attempts.



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