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Printer Spool Hung Up

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by wainwrighttj

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How do I delete a print job from the server. Trying to delete a 32 meg has hung up the server. I'm running Windows XP - Pro. Shutting down the printer has not helped.
The print window says "Deleting -Printing" but has the Xerox Workcenter Pro hung up.

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by jschein

goto the services in administrative tools in the control panel... Stop the spooler service. You may receive an error message, that is ok. Once stopped, just restart that service and you are back to normal.

by haileyan

Stop the print spooler service.

At a command promt type:
net stop spooler
(leave the command window open for now)

Now use Windows explorer and browse to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS delete anything in the Printers folder.

Go back to the command prompt and type:
net start spooler

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