re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 6:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brent Ransom
(1 messages posted)
Wow, thanks so much, everyone! This same thing had me taking my new Notebook PC
back to Best Buy thinking my DVD drive was defective. They looked at all the processes
running, but failed to see that Spoolsv.exe was taking 99%. When I finally realized
that, it sent me here. My print jobs (4) were in the MS Office Document Image Writer
queue.
On Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 5:52 pm, hellothere wrote:
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>THanks for all who posted their experience. I have been haunted by the spoosv eating
>CPU time for quite some time. Initially I suspected some virus as I see network
>traffic to my router all the time when spoolsv is running. It turned out that
I
>have a PDF "printer," (that is, you can send a MS .doc to this PDF "printer" and
>generate a .pdf file) and there were 5 jobs in that queue!!! Problem solved after
>deleting the 5 zombie jobs.
>
>Thanks all again.
>
>
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