Re: [PCWorks] Stopping a print job
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:46:32 -0500
Similar to Karl's reply.....
Since I don't do a lot of printing it's pointless having the
Spooler Service running all the time. I have two batch files
that I use for this.
To start the Service:
@title PrintSpooler Manager
@echo Running PrintSpooler... Wait until it's done.
net.exe start Spooler
To STOP the Service:
@echo Stopping unnecessary service...
@net stop Spooler
Paste each of those into a text file and make the extension
.bat, then drag a shortcut from where ever you keep them to
somewhere like your Taskbar. Change the status of the Spooler
Service from automatic to "Manual". Then whenever you need to
print something click the shortcut to the file that starts the
Service, and when you're through click the other to stop it.
When I have had this happen I could always click the icon in
the System Tray and either "Cancel" all docs or "Purge" the
que/queue, even with more problematic USB printers. But
stopping the Service should also work.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Grossman"
Did you ever have the annoying and frustrating experience of
trying to stop
a print job and the system balked? Of course you did.
It happened to me again about an hour ago.
I meant to print just page 1 of a long document, but clicked on
the default
button (page range: all) by mistake. I then yanked the
remaining paper out
of the tray.
Of course, I got an "out of paper" message, so I tried
everything possible:
I tried to cancel that print job
I tried to cancel all print jobs (even though there was only
one)
I tried to remove the paper and reinsert it
I tried to fill the paper tray so that it would sense that it
had paper
I turned the printer off and on (several times, after waiting
while it was
off)
I restarted the computer
I tried to print another document. It wouldn't print, of
course, but I was
able to cancel that print job.
I finally did kill the job by going into Services, Print
Spooler. However,
I'm sure there's a better way. After all, the average user
would not be
expected to know about the print spooler.
Is there a good way to stop those annoying print jobs?
David Grossman
Using Win7 and a cheapo HP P1005 (but it's happened on many
other printers
as well).
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