re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron
Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 6:58 am
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Posted by xia
(1 messages posted)
in my case the image writer printer had pending documents to be printed in queue
i deleted them and hurray everything is back to normal with spoolsv.exe showing 0%
cpu usage
On Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 12:39 pm, Rob wrote:
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>I've got a similar problem on my XP Pro running HP Omnibook nx6100 laptop.
>I have a HP8550DN printer on my network, and last weekend this laptop decided that
>the printer "wasn't there" anymore. I could see the printer's webpage, the management
>software on the laptop was quite happy working with the printer.
>
>I ran a reg clean, just in case there was a problem there. I deleted every printer,
>and attempted to re-install the driver.
>
>It happily installed all of the other printers on machines on our network. But now,
>when I try to install the HP8550, it just appears to freeze. The spoolsrv process
>is running at 90+%, the CPU fan has gone into overdrive. If I kill the process,
the
>installation of the printer suddenly appears to be complete - would I like it to
>be my default printer? I click yes, the next, and up pops an error. IE: it didn't
>install it.
>
>I've run sfc /scannow with no problems reported.
>
>I've tried all of the "published" fixes - deleting temporary spool files, etc..
>
>I still can't get this blasted printer re-installed on this laptop.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Rob.
>
>
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