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Here’s the situation, You’ve printed and the print job is stuck, rebooting won’t help, and nothing else can print until you kill the print job.

Here are the generic instructions:

1. Stop the print spooler (The files are locked until you stop the print spool service)

Start, Settings, Control Panel, Performance & Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Services, Print Spooler, Stop

2. Manually Delete the print Job from the printer queue. (Gets rid of the pesky print job)

Start, My Computer, C – Drive, Windows (Show these files), System32 (Show These Files), Spool, Printers.

Delete all the files in C:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.*

3. Start the print spooler (So that you can start printing again (You can just reboot instead of this step))

Start, Settings, Control Panel, Performance & Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Services, Print Spooler, Start.

So now it’s as easy as 1,2,3 to fix this problem for you please share the information with friends so that they won’t be tearing their hair out if they get a stuck print job.

These instructions will work with windows XP, Vista, 7, or older versions of windows as well. Some of the steps may vary slightly depending on the version, but the instructions will give you a guide to getting you out of your jam.

Need to do a full backup? Don’t know where to turn?

Introducing EASEUS Todo Backup from the EASEUS data recovery software company.

Easy to use, just plug in an external drive and zap all your entire drive to the external.

Restoring is as easy as booting up a windows PE disk Click here to learn how.

Alternatively you can restore from another computer to a new hard disk plugged into a USB-IDE adapter.

The nice part is the software is simple to use, very very effective and will restore the entire disk (OS included) to a new hard disk. I Highly recommend this product.

You can download the EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 here.

View a slideshow of how to install Todo Backup 1.1 here.

Click below for the youtube version of the install procedure.