Under the Services applet in the control panel go to and double click on the Spooler Service and Click on the recovery tab Set it to restart the service on first and second failure and to probably reboot on the third failure. You can also set it to run a script like at the the bottom of http://thin.net/print.cfm that resets the spooler and clears out the printer files. JAK Rod Falanga <> wrote: I hadn't thought of the print spooler service failing. I just checked the event log and did find that it had stopped unexpectedly twice (at least). How do I make it automatically restart? Rod >