CHKSPOOL will restart a print spooler even if it is still showing as running. What it does is tries to print to a file using the spooler, and if the file doesn't get created, it assumes it is down. I wrote this for the exact condition you are describing. - Bob -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Jarrett-Norton Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:42 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent help needed: client printers auto-creation. I see the same thing that is is not a true crash.. Sorry for wrong verbiage but it stopped responding properly even though Windows thinks that it is still up and operating. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pavlo Ignatusha Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:13 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Urgent help needed: client printers auto-creation. Bruce, But my spooler is not showing the stopped state - it says that the service is up and running. I use windows 2000 recovery options for the Print Spooler to restart it every time it crashes, but as far as logs say it did not crash at all.