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by santoshdevadiga

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on my site some pc give spool32 error when the users try to print . when the printer's folder in control panel is opened u find no printers installed . rebooting the pc shows all the printers and even printing takes place ,but how long is a questionfor after some time ,may be even 3-4 days later, it gives the same error,
is there any solution other than reinstalling the pc.

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by gigelul

If you can to determine which printer cause the problems, for that printer try to replace driver with the newest driver. Maybe is an option to deactivate for a period of timing, one by one the printers to see if the problems persist.

by bhavyadon

And also check which other programs are running at the time of error.. real culprit might be that program..
BhavyaDon

by rabbit_runner

Hi,
Are you running an anti-virus program on the workstation, like McAfee? If you are, McAfee will affect the spooler so that all the printers disappear from the printers folder.

The solution is to obtain the sspool.exe and sspool.dll from a Windows ME installation. You will need to install these on your workstations. You must do this from DOS as the Windows OS holds these files.

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