Core Data Recovery

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.

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