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re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Friday, September 20, 2002 at 5:46 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) I know youve disabled Print Spooler in services....right? ...temp fix at best , tho. On Friday, September 20, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Aaron D. Minks wrote: >it is real simple. i noticed my system running SUPER slow so i go to the windows >task manager to see what the matter is and i find that cpu usage is at 100%. after >a process of elimination i found that it is the spoolsv.exe file that is accounting >for all of it. i end it and the cpu usage goes to 0 or 1%. after a few minutes it >comes back on. it is always on! i have tried deleting it, incinerating it, installing >new drivers and setting up my print jobs to bypass the spooler and go straight to >the printer and every time i restart my computer the spoolsv.exe is back and the >cpu usage is at 100%. i am in great need of someone much much smarter than me to >help me solve this issue. please, help me oh great ones! i acknowledge my weakness >and beg for your mercy. thank you, in advance! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Friday, September 20, 2002 at 7:39 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23818 messages posted) www.blackviper.com On Friday, September 20, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Aaron D. Minks wrote: >it is real simple. i noticed my system running SUPER slow so i go to the windows >task manager to see what the matter is and i find that cpu usage is at 100%. after >a process of elimination i found that it is the spoolsv.exe file that is accounting >for all of it. i end it and the cpu usage goes to 0 or 1%. after a few minutes it >comes back on. it is always on! i have tried deleting it, incinerating it, installing >new drivers and setting up my print jobs to bypass the spooler and go straight to >the printer and every time i restart my computer the spoolsv.exe is back and the >cpu usage is at 100%. i am in great need of someone much much smarter than me to >help me solve this issue. please, help me oh great ones! i acknowledge my weakness >and beg for your mercy. thank you, in advance! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 2:56 pm Posted by Keith Howe (2 messages posted) Did you find a workaround for this problem? Unfortunately I have a Compaq ML370 that has also started to do the same. Keith. On Friday, September 20, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Aaron D. Minks wrote: >it is real simple. i noticed my system running SUPER slow so i go to the windows >task manager to see what the matter is and i find that cpu usage is at 100%. after >a process of elimination i found that it is the spoolsv.exe file that is accounting >for all of it. i end it and the cpu usage goes to 0 or 1%. after a few minutes it >comes back on. it is always on! i have tried deleting it, incinerating it, installing >new drivers and setting up my print jobs to bypass the spooler and go straight to >the printer and every time i restart my computer the spoolsv.exe is back and the >cpu usage is at 100%. i am in great need of someone much much smarter than me to >help me solve this issue. please, help me oh great ones! i acknowledge my weakness >and beg for your mercy. thank you, in advance! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Monday, November 4, 2002 at 3:04 am Posted by Keith Howe (2 messages posted) I managed to solve the problem! On the ML370 all printers that were installed were not visible to me. So I decided to reinstall one of them. This in turn updated the list of installed printers, and showed me the rest of the already installed devices. I could then see that I had a stuck entry in one of the queues. On removal of this entry, the CPU dropped back down to normal levels of usage. Pity that Microsoft won't acknowledge this as a problem! regards, Keith. On Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 2:56 pm, Keith Howe wrote: >Did you find a workaround for this problem? Unfortunately I have a Compaq ML370 that >has also started to do the same. > >Keith. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Monday, November 11, 2002 at 6:04 pm Posted by Tim (1 messages posted) I've been dealing with this same issue on a Compaq Evo D310 (I think that's the model) running XP Home. I originally had pegged it to my Epson Stylus C80 USB printer which sends out a bogus print job (ebapi.dll or something like that was its name) to monitor the printer's status. I got all the monitoring turned off and it seemed mostly fixed except when one of the kids would try to print something without the printer turned on. Anyway I'm sick of screwing with it. I'm just pissed off now. I've wasted too much time. Only related issue I found was that Novell issued a patch to one of the files in their client to address spoolsv.exe high utilization. I'll keeping mucking about and let you know if I find anything. On Monday, November 4, 2002 at 3:04 am, Keith Howe wrote: >I managed to solve the problem! On the ML370 all printers that were installed were >not visible to me. So I decided to reinstall one of them. This in turn updated the >list of installed printers, and showed me the rest of the already installed devices. >I could then see that I had a stuck entry in one of the queues. On removal of this >entry, the CPU dropped back down to normal levels of usage. Pity that Microsoft won't >acknowledge this as a problem! > >regards, >Keith. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 1:46 am Posted by Oceanheart (1 messages posted) Spoolsv.exe = CPU hog Possible Cause: Print job still in que Suggested Fix: Cancel print job Step by Step: 1. Go to Settings>Control Panel>Printers 2. Locate pending print que under the documents column. 3. Double click on printer to pull up spool que. 4. Right click on first job and select cancel. Result: This should cancel the hung print job and free up the CPU. Typically this is the result of an incompatibility between the print job source and the printer driver. If you record the source of the job and the desired printer, you may be able to find out from the driver distributer where the conflict is originating-- it might be as simple as a font!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 4:15 am Posted by Alastair Sommerville (1 messages posted) Hi, I had the same problem a few hours ago, however if you delete this key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-2] from the registry, it works fine. Remember modifying your registry can screw up your machine. However it did the trick for me Hope this helps. Ally On Friday, September 20, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Aaron D. Minks wrote: >it is real simple. i noticed my system running SUPER slow so i go to the windows >task manager to see what the matter is and i find that cpu usage is at 100%. after >a process of elimination i found that it is the spoolsv.exe file that is accounting >for all of it. i end it and the cpu usage goes to 0 or 1%. after a few minutes it >comes back on. it is always on! i have tried deleting it, incinerating it, installing >new drivers and setting up my print jobs to bypass the spooler and go straight to >the printer and every time i restart my computer the spoolsv.exe is back and the >cpu usage is at 100%. i am in great need of someone much much smarter than me to >help me solve this issue. please, help me oh great ones! i acknowledge my weakness >and beg for your mercy. thank you, in advance! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Monday, January 13, 2003 at 10:24 pm Posted by Czesiek (1 messages posted) Thanks for the hits guys. I’ve also run into this problem with Windows XP and Epson Stylus C82. I could not get rid of this problem even after I removed all the bogus print jobs that I could find. Even uninstalling the printed completely didn’t do it. In the end, I uninstalled both the printer software and the printer port from Start>All Programs>Epson C82 (as supposed form the Control Panel). I can’t say why it would make a difference, but it seemed to do it for me. Cheers Czesiek [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 7:20 am Posted by Bonn (4 messages posted) ditto basically.... I removed the Epson printer, driver and virtually every reference to anything Epson on my system (except for my Epson Perfection scanner) from the registry. Reinstalled the printer and driver and have not had any issues since. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 1:28 am Posted by Lars Thomsen (1 messages posted) I had the same problem and by doing the deletion of a hung printer job submitted to my shared printer over our small Microsoft Network the problem was immediately resolved. The fun is, that I didnt believe I had a hung print job since I had not submitted any print jobs to my printers - but somebody else did and I found out that for some reasons I suddenly had a printer called "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer"..I never installed that one, but this was the one that had the hung job and caused the 100% CPU usage. Thanks for the help On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 1:46 am, Oceanheart wrote: >Spoolsv.exe = CPU hog >Possible Cause: >Print job still in que > >Suggested Fix: >Cancel print job > >Step by Step: >1. Go to Settings>Control Panel>Printers >2. Locate pending print que under the documents column. >3. Double click on printer to pull up spool que. >4. Right click on first job and select cancel. > >Result: >This should cancel the hung print job and free up the CPU. > >Typically this is the result of an incompatibility between the print job source and >the printer driver. If you record the source of the job and the desired printer, >you may be able to find out from the driver distributer where the conflict is originating-- >it might be as simple as a font!! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 5:48 am Posted by Bill (1 messages posted) There is presently a virus that uses this file. Check Symantec's site for the latest update or information. On Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 1:28 am, Lars Thomsen wrote: > >I had the same problem and by doing the deletion of a hung printer job submitted >to my shared printer over our small Microsoft Network the problem was immediately >resolved. The fun is, that I didnt believe I had a hung print job since I had not >submitted any print jobs to my printers - but somebody else did and I found out that >for some reasons I suddenly had a printer called "Microsoft Office Document Image >Writer"..I never installed that one, but this was the one that had the hung job and >caused the 100% CPU usage. Thanks for the help > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Wednesday, November 26, 2003 at 2:20 pm Posted by Kannan Soundarapandian (1 messages posted) Thanks Lars, This solved the problem for me. So the basic problem is stuck queues. I had the 'microsoft whatever' printer too. and nope.. don't know where it came from. Kannan On Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 1:28 am, Lars Thomsen wrote: > >I had the same problem and by doing the deletion of a hung printer job submitted >to my shared printer over our small Microsoft Network the problem was immediately >resolved. The fun is, that I didnt believe I had a hung print job since I had not >submitted any print jobs to my printers - but somebody else did and I found out that >for some reasons I suddenly had a printer called "Microsoft Office Document Image >Writer"..I never installed that one, but this was the one that had the hung job and >caused the 100% CPU usage. Thanks for the help > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Wednesday, November 26, 2003 at 9:26 pm Posted by loughlin (1 messages posted) I deleted all the printers and reinstalled them, this worked. so far..... On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 4:15 am, Alastair Sommerville wrote: >Hi, > >I had the same problem a few hours ago, however if you delete this key: > >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT >x86\Drivers\Version-2] > >from the registry, it works fine. > >Remember modifying your registry can screw up your machine. However it did the trick >for me > >Hope this helps. >Ally > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 4:54 pm Posted by Len (1 messages posted) Deleting all the Epson subkeys under the location mentioned below finally worked for me after I had been wrestling with this problem for weeks. Printer involved also was Epson C80, running under XP Pro, and had even persisted after a "repair" reinstall of XP. Thanks. Len Stuart On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 4:15 am, Alastair Sommerville wrote: >Hi, > >I had the same problem a few hours ago, however if you delete this key: > >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT >x86\Drivers\Version-2] > >from the registry, it works fine. > >Remember modifying your registry can screw up your machine. However it did the trick >for me > >Hope this helps. >Ally > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 12:09 am Posted by Mohammed Anwar Shaikh (1 messages posted) Dear Sir, I have a similiar problem to what people in this page have written, I have a windows xp operating system and i have installed hp laserjet 1320 Printer and when i restarted the system i found the system to be working very very slow, when i checked the task manager for the process, the print spooler was taking 100% CPU Utilization due to which the system has gone very slow, please try to help me out as i have been looking for this solution since a week, i really appreciate if you can do this needful to me . Thank you in advance, Anwar Shaikh [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 2:13 pm Posted by nikdahl (1 messages posted) I have been experiencing this problem for the past few days. Here is the fix. 1) Stop your Print Spooler Service (Under Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) 2) Delete the files in the folder c:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS There will be files in there called something like 00002.shd or 00020.spl. They can be safely deleted. These are corrupt print jobs that are hung up in your printer queue. After deleting the files, you can then restart your Print Spooler Service and enjoy a normal computer once again. On Sunday, September 3, 2006 at 12:09 am, Mohammed Anwar Shaikh wrote: >Dear Sir, >I have a similiar problem to what people in this page have written, I have a windows >xp operating system and i have installed hp laserjet 1320 Printer and when i restarted >the system i found the system to be working very very slow, when i checked the task >manager for the process, the print spooler was taking 100% CPU Utilization due to >which the system has gone very slow, please try to help me out as i have been looking >for this solution since a week, i really appreciate if you can do this needful to >me . > >Thank you in advance, > >Anwar Shaikh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe puts me at cpu usage 100% perpetually Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 5:47 am Posted by Viktor Placek (1 messages posted) On my computer the source of this problem was probably "Xerox TCP/IP port monitor". I uninstalled it and the problem disappeared. On Friday, September 20, 2002 at 5:46 pm, triplate wrote: >I know youve disabled Print Spooler in services....right? >...temp fix at best , tho. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum