Friday, February 8, 2013

Windows Vista Spooler subsystem app stopped working


ISSUE
You see the error follow error when you try to use the print service in Windows Vista

SOLUTION
Method1

1.Go to Programs and Features in Control panel .
2.Click Turn Windows features on or off .
3.Click + sign of Print services.
4.Select LPD and LPR , remove Internet Printing Client .
5.Restart the system to ensure there is no error of spooler service.

Method 2: Need to go into Windows Registry Editor and delete some printer driver subkeys, try to backup your registry database before you continue.

1.Click Start menu, type regedit in the search field.
2Navigate to the follow key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / ControlSet001/Control /Print/ Environments/ Windows NT x86/Version -3/

3.Remove all the printer keys here.
4.Exit regedit
5.Restart the print spooler service.
6.Reinstall the printer drivers.


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