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Adding Printer to W2k

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by davidg47

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I just purchased a new computer with 128 MB Ram, 30 GB hard drive, an Athalon 900 processor. I partioned the hard drive so that Windows would install on the Primary (C) drive of 5GB, and all programs would install on 10GB drive E:. Drive F is for storage of all documents. I successfully installed Windows 2000 Professional on the C drive and Office 2000 Premium on the E drive. But when I tried to Add Printer, I got the error message saying "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print system is unavailable." Does anyone know why I would recieve this rpoblem, and what I need to do to fix this?
Thanks, admin@mindinthesky.com

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by sgt_shultz

what is the printer make and model?
see if something here helps:
support.microsoft.com...knowledgebase article 300610
HOW TO: Set Up a Print Queue in Windows 2000
what network protocols do you have setup?
is this a usb printer?

by sgt_shultz

ooops, bet this is the answer:
mskb article 244921 "The print subsystem is unavailable" after installing Office 2000...
sez that the Office installation can stop the print spooler and not restart it sometimes.
fix it by going to command prompt and typing "net start spooler"
I would also take a peek at the settings for the print spooler, make sure it is set to start automatically... (right click My Computer, pick Manage, then pick services)
I am betting this problem went away on its own after you rebooted the system...?
if none of this works, my final suggestion is to have a look at the Event viewer to see if more info about the error is in there...good luck

by steffeno

I have encounter this problem on my win2k pro machine as well. Answer 2 is correct. You can either use the net start spooler in your command prompt or simply go to services and start the spooler service and probably set it to run automatically at startup

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