I recently had to do a repair of a XP Home installation and ran the XP Home setup CD. All worked fine, but now as soon as a user logs on they are greeted with a “Spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem and needs to close” message, which continues to pop up periodically while the PC is running. Printers which were installed prior to the repair are no longer present in the printers and faxes window, and when I try to re-install a printer I get a message saying the “Print Spooler Service is not running” (however if i check in services it says it is) I have tried the MS knowledge base articles 810894 and 324757 also deleting and .shd and.spl files suggested in previous threads on this subject. But nothing makes any difference.
ANY help please!