Spooler subsystem app stopped working: Reasons
There are some cases when you can see different error messages about printer spooler service. We think that the error messages that are bound with print spooler service are the most annoying. It is very hard to keep patience, trying to print, when printer spooler service is not functioning properly. In that case you can click to print hundred if times, but printer will not print a page! So, you can see the following error message:
“Spooler SubSystem App stopped working and was closed”
You error message also can different. But if in the error message you can see the words “print spooler service”, “spooler subsystem app”, “printer”, “Spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem” so you can be sure that you have print spooler service problem.
The reasons of the error can be different. The most common reasons are the driver issues and viruses. So, you can test the first reason by yourselves, just reinstall the drivers for you printer. Just download the drivers that becomes your printer and version of Windows. If you are sure that your drivers are compatible with your printer and Windows version, so you should check the next variant of reasons:viruses. Just think, is it possible to have viruses on your computer? Think if your antivirus program is not effective, or, frankly speaking, even useless…
So, if it can be so, you are welcome to use the special removal tool, that will help you to get rid of this annoying appearance of error messages.
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So, as we already said, you should detect the reason of the error and fix the problem according to the reason. If outdated drivers are the real reason of the problem, so your you can solve the problem easily: just reinstall the drivers. Find the necessary drivers and install them instead of the outdated once.
If the problem is not in the driver issues, so you can be sure that the most common reason in such a case is the infection in your system. The infection can penetrate your system and created many malicious copies of the real system files, including spoolsv.exe file (the essential part of the print spooler service). In that case you can try to find the false spoolsv.exe files on your computer, using Programs and files search. You can remove all the files, except the real one that locates in C: \Windows\System32.
Or sometimes the virus can infect the real file itself. So in that case you should check you computer for viruses and then do the restoration of the system.
If you don’t want to perform numerous actions, trying to solve the “Spooler subsystem app stopped working” problem, so you can use the following Fix Wizard that will help you no matter what the reason of the problem is.
