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The following instructions are intended for Windows Vista. The screen images and operations may differ slightly in Windows XP and Windows Double-click the printer icon in [Task Tray] on the lower-right corner of the screen.
Click [Printer], and then click [Cancel All Documents]. If you click [Cancel All Documents], the documents in the print queue will not be printed. The following screen appears, so confirm that all documents in the print queue have been deleted.
If you are using more than one printer, confirm whether there are documents in the print queue for other printers. If there are documents in the print queue, delete all documents in the print queue following the instructions above. The documents in the Printers folder cannot be deleted because the folder and contents are Read-only. When I try to remove the Read-Only Attributes — it does not allow me. What should I do? This article is still helping me in ! Thanks Leo! You are a lifesaver.
All other solutions that I found on other websites were for everything except Windows 7. You rock! I got all the way up to the step where I am to open Windows Explorer- finally found it in accessories, but when I open it- it simply opens my document files and no search there reveals the mysterious whereabouts of the file I am supposed to be deleting- what am I doing wrong?
I do not see anyplace to enter either Start or run. IT illiterate;. Really got me out out of a pickle! Just hooked up a new wireless printer. Could print from one user profile, but not the other. Spent hours trying to resolve issue on my own. If not for this post, I probably would have just bought a new PC. But thank you, all the same. I just might need it. Perhaps when MicroSoft decide not to include a Command method!
Oh my gosh! Ditto to every other comment on here. I have been trying to fix this for three days! I was about to have to go print my payroll checks somewhere else while weeping from frustration. Your directions were clear, concise, and easy to execute. You just saved me — and my printer. I was about to go all Office Space on the MF. You should really consider adding a donation box. I would have thrown you a few bones today for sure.
Again, thanks so much!!! Consider yourself bookmarked, and a little worshipped. Piper, You can always buy Leo a Latte… he loves those! The link is down at the bottom of the page too. Buy Leo a Latte. Open a cmd line. Type in cmd 3. Press enter 4. Type in net stop spooler 5. Go back to the cmd prompt 7. If you still cannot print, you have a corrupted driver. Remove the driver that you are printing to. Open up the devices and printers from Control Panel 2.
Make another printer as a default print. Highlight a printer 4. Windows XP. Windows 7. Select Print Server Properties on top 5. Go to Driver Tab and remove that driver. If it cannot, do it in safe mode. Same step. Visit your manufacturer website for the latest driver. Reinstall reinstall the driver. Go to Safe Mode restart clicking F8 until it prompts you to. Select any mode of Safe Mode 3. Delete everything inside: C:WindowsSystem32spooldrivers. I had 7 documents in queue and I had tried for days to reinstall my printer, finally got that done and then could not print..
Oh, you are a genius. I swear. After getting the same document getting printed at least 15 copies when all I wanted was one copy, I decided to search for help and found your life saving answer. Thank you sooooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuch. May GOD bless you. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Often, simply clearing and restarting the print spooler—the software that prepares and manages printing documents—can fix the problem. If that fails, you may need to cancel one or more documents in your print queue and see if that gets things going again.
Instead, it restarts things and proceeds as if all those documents had just been sent to the printer for the first time. Fire up File Explorer and browse to the following location—or just copy and paste this text into your File Explorer address bar and hit Enter:.
As soon as you restart the Print Spooler service, all the documents in your queue are immediately respooled and sent to the printer. If all goes well, they should start printing again right away. Fire up Notepad or your preferred text editor. Copy and paste the following text as separate lines into the blank document:. You can now double-click that batch file to clear the print spooler whenever you want. Sometimes, clearing a single stuck document will get your printer going again and any other print jobs in the queue can finish printing normally.
Other times, you might have to cancel all the currently printing documents and then try printing them again. The print queue window shows the print jobs currently awaiting printing. If the cancellation was successful, the document should disappear from the print queue and the printer will start printing the next document in line.
All the documents in the queue should disappear and you can try printing a new document to see if it works. But hopefully, these steps have helped fix your stuck print job before going that far. Use Google Fonts in Word.
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