re: print spooler
Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 3:17 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11775 messages posted)
RandyA
This is a long shot
Some programs will take over the spooler file on the fly and stick in the one they
want to use in it's place..
and will knock out the win2k spooler file...
Lantastic is one of them..
Check to see if you have more than you need on the machine..and the dates on them..
printui.dll,printnt.dll,Mprintui.dll,,,,,
Lantastic will move printui.dll over to one side and use it's printui.dll...when
it pops in it will nail the Add Printer item and it will just be blank (no printers
listed and you can't add one or see any that are installed)
You can also download some free software that will tell you what's going on in the
background...
one is called filemon plus others from the same web site...see below....they should
help pin it down..
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Free stuff
Be sure to check out the current featured utilities:
Process Explorer v8.4, Filemon v6.1, Regmon v6.1, and PsTools v2.05.
PsTools is alot like MS Tlist but it runs in windows GUI
http://www.sysinternals.com/
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Monitoring Tools
http://www.sysinternals.com/sitemap.shtml
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Hope this helps a bit
On Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 2:28 pm, RandyA wrote:
>Okay you computer wizards, greater than I.
>I am running into problem. I work on domain computers running W2K, from time to
time
>I get a call somebody saying that they had lost their printers. Of course I can
do
>a runas and fix the problem. I have read articles on Technet and knowledge base,
>they have not resolved the issue. I have gone as far as to start from "scratch"
and
>redo the computer. The GPO and local rights have been checked and checked again.
>Could the you think that we might be able to check?
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- print spooler (RandyA: Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 2:28 pm)
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