Re: [PCWorks] Computer runs incredibly slow!
- From: "Karl Springer" <bi434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:12:31 -0800
On 9 Nov 2009 at 4:43 -0600, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin wrote,
at least in part:
> It's not just the Spooler Service, that's just an example of
> one. Some of those things running are Services. The Spooler
> Service MUST be started in order to print anything. So if
> you don't do much printing, keep it set to Manual, then when
> you want to print something just go to it in the list and
> click "Start service" at the left pane. Then after printing
> you can shut it down the same way, or just stop it in the
> Task Manager (it's listed as "spoolsv.exe" in the Task
> Manager).
Another way to turn this service on/off is with the Run commands
"net start spooler"/"net stop spooler" (both less quote marks).
To simplify operations you could do this in a toggle-type batch
files with a shortcut.
> ... Msconfig is really annoying: ...
Thankfully there are free programs such as Starter,
<http://www.snapfiles.com/get/starter.html>, which is a easier
to use.
Karl
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