re: Print subsystem unavailable in Windows 2000. Spooler service won't stay running.
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
What printers were previously installed?? If you had a Lexmark, there is an issue
with their software and you will have to do some cleaning I believe. Just one possible
problem that I have seen and has been posted on the forum....
On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 1:10 pm, Jim Pruitt wrote:
>I am running Windows 2000 SP4. Earlier this week I tried to install a new HP CP3503
>network printer. Something happened and now I have no printers at all (even though
>they are all still listed in the registry in the correct place). When I try to
add
>a new printer I get the error that the system is out of resources and "Printer operation
>cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print subsystem is unavailable".
>The print spooler is not started but going to services and restarting it does nothing.
> Now I not print and can not add any printers and have no printers in the list.
>It does not matter what profile I log in under. I tried copying spooler files from
>the Windows 2000 CD to C:\Winnt\system32 but that makes no difference. Short of
>upgrading to XP how can I fix this without destroying the existing system?
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