Ever had print jobs stuck in Windows and deleting them/restarting the print spooler didn't help?! Well, I have a friend that has Windows XP and has both Windows and DOS based program's and a problematic printer that cause's a specific job from clogging the print queue which also cause's the spooler to stick preventing further printing. After removing all driver's and printer's and reinstalling I finally created a batch script, see below, that he can run which will clear the queue and return him to work in under 30 seconds. Here is the batch (bat) script I wrote (works great!!): @echo off echo Stopping print service net stop spooler 1>nul 2>nul ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 1>nul 2>nul cd c:\windows\system32\spool\printers echo Deleting print jobs del /q *.spl 1>nul 2>nul del /q *.shd 1>nul 2>nul cd\ echo Starting print service net start spooler 1>nul 2>nul ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 1>nul 2>nul echo All Print Jobs Deleted! ping -n 6 127.0.0.1 1>nul 2>nul Based on: |
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Ever had print jobs stuckposted Dec 13, 2010 1:47 AM by Erez Kalman |