Re: [PCWorks] Stopping a print job
- From: "Karl Springer" <bi434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:32 -0700
On 1 Oct 2010 at 2:21 +0200, David Grossman wrote, at least in
part:
> Did you ever have the annoying and frustrating experience of
> trying to stop a print job and the system balked? Of course
> you did.
> I finally did kill the job by going into Services, Print
> Spooler. However, I'm sure there's a better way.
On an XP Pro machine I use a batch file with a desktop shortcut:
@ echo off
cls
color 1e
net stop spooler
del /s /q %windir%\System32\Spool\Printers\*.* > nul
net start spooler
delay 2000 s
You can get a copy of 'delay' at
http://www.soft.tahionic.com/download-delay/index.html
Karl
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