[THIN] Tip: Citrix Printing service in PS 4.0

  • From: "Jim Kenzig Kenzig.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:04:51 -0700 (PDT)

FYI
I don't know if this service was in MPS 3 FR 1 but it appears in PS 4.0. This 
service controls the advanced Citrix universal printer driver and must be 
stopped before the spooler can be stopped so you can clear stuck jobs. The name 
that the Citrix prining service uses is CpSvc.exe.  So a batch job to clear the 
spoolers now has to look something like this:

net stop CpSvc
net stop spooler
echo y | del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.*
c:\timeout.exe 5
net start CpSvc
net start spooler
 
(note timeout.exe is a resource kit utility also available on 
http://thethin.net/timeout.zip )
 
Regards,
Jim Kenzig
http://thin.net
 

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