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Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service isnot running.
When I right click on a particular printer and try to view the
Properties of it, I get the following message: Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service is not running Problem is, it is running, as going to Administrative Tools - Services in the Control Panel verifies. One of the "printers" I have installed is "Send To OneNote 2007". I can right click on that just fine - just not this other printer. Would I be able to do that if the print spooler wasn't running? Indeed, if I do disable the print spooler, *all* the printers in "Printers and Faxes" disappear. So the fact that I'm even seeing them in the first place suggests to me that the printer spooler is running. |
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Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service is not running.
Is the (real) printer in question installed on your own PC or on a network?
If you try and start the Print Spooler, what is the message on the screen? http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "yawnmoth" wrote in message ... When I right click on a particular printer and try to view the Properties of it, I get the following message: Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service is not running Problem is, it is running, as going to Administrative Tools - Services in the Control Panel verifies. One of the "printers" I have installed is "Send To OneNote 2007". I can right click on that just fine - just not this other printer. Would I be able to do that if the print spooler wasn't running? Indeed, if I do disable the print spooler, *all* the printers in "Printers and Faxes" disappear. So the fact that I'm even seeing them in the first place suggests to me that the printer spooler is running. |
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Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler serviceis not running.
On Oct 7, 5:02*pm, "Cari \(MS-MVP\)"
wrote: Is the (real) printer in question installed on your own PC or on a network? It's a "Local printer attached to this computer" connected via a "Standard TCP/IP Port". Personally, I think such a printer ought to be called "A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer", but that's the terminology the "Add Printer Wizard" uses. If you try and start the Print Spooler, what is the message on the screen? http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm I don't currently have access to the computer, however, I'm not really sure of the applicability of that URL. The printers disappeared because I *did* disable the Print Spooler. That they reappear when I reenable it goes without saying. The reason I mentioned it is to establish that, near as I can tell, the Print Spooler *is* running. |
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Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service isnot running.
This problem of your windows XP a gap of 'Print Spooler' (http://www.utilitiessoftware.org/print-spooler). please visit 'Print Spooler | Utilities Software' (http://www.utilitiessoftware.org/print-spooler) Good Luck. -- teenoie |
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Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler serviceisnot running.
On Oct 8, 1:51*am, undisclosed wrote:
This problem of your windows XP a gap of 'Print Spooler' (http://www.utilitiessoftware.org/print-spooler). please visit 'Print Spooler | Utilities Software' (http://www.utilitiessoftware.org/print-spooler) C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS is empty. It's empty when the Print Spooler is running and it's empty when it isn't. Also, I was unable to install KB896423 since I'm running SP3. Trying to install it got me the following: Setup has detected that the Service Pack version of this system is newer than the updates you are applying. There is no need to install this update. |
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Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler serviceis not running.
On Oct 7, 10:12*pm, yawnmoth wrote:
On Oct 7, 5:02*pm, "Cari \(MS-MVP\)" wrote: Is the (real) printer in question installed on your own PC or on a network? It's a "Local printer attached to this computer" connected via a "Standard TCP/IP Port". *Personally, I think such a printer ought to be called "A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer", but that's the terminology the "Add Printer Wizard" uses. If you try and start the Print Spooler, what is the message on the screen? http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm I don't currently have access to the computer, however, I'm not really sure of the applicability of that URL. *The printers disappeared because I *did* disable the Print Spooler. *That they reappear when I reenable it goes without saying. *The reason I mentioned it is to establish that, near as I can tell, the Print Spooler *is* running. The message I get is as follows: Windows is attempting to start the following service on Local Computer... Print Spooler The green bar advances and then the window disappears after the Print Spooler has been activated. |
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