re: Printer Drivers Disappearing Friday, February 4, 2005 at 5:19 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Crash Override (2170 messages posted) Instead of rebooting, try going to services.msc and making sure the spooler service is running. If it is stop and then start it. If it is not running, start it. Regards, Crash Override On Friday, February 4, 2005 at 12:59 am, DaveW wrote: >I think I have almost the same problem as this. I have a win2k server controlling > several network printers connected directly into the LAN that are then shared out. >Periodically no-one will be able to print to any of the printers. Printers folder >on the server will be empty and I'll get an RPC error message. If I reboot all will >be fine . >This always appears to when there is windows updates ready for install (updates are >all set to download automatically). I'm not sure if this is coincidence or not. >Any ideas anybody? > > > Written in response to: re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (DaveW: Friday, February 4, 2005 at 12:59 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Printer Drivers Disappearing (Ann: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 7:45 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (DEX: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 8:29 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Marc: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 3:56 pm) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (DEX: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 4:29 pm) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Ann: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 5:16 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Marc: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 4:29 pm) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Ann: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 6:03 pm) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Crash Override: Wed, Jan 26, 2005, 8:39 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (DaveW: Fri, Feb 4, 2005, 12:59 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Crash Override: Fri, Feb 4, 2005, 5:19 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Ann: Mon, Feb 14, 2005, 8:31 am) re: Printer Drivers Disappearing (Thet Khine: Mon, Feb 7, 2005, 3:49 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum