What are the reasons of spooler crashing error?
Sometimes you can see the following error message on your computer:
“Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service is not running”
or
“Windows could not start the print spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.”
Or even YOUR error message can be with some other text about the print spooler service or Spooler App, so the essence is the same: you have great problems with your print spooler and you cannot print at all. And you can think this moment:”Why do I have this error?” So, the most common reason of such errors is a virus. So viruses can infect your computer and even the spoolsv.exe file (that belong to print spooler service). And there are also some cases when viruses created some malicious files with the name of legitimate spoolsv.exe file.
Another reason of this error can be the corrupted, outdated updates for the printer drivers or third-party drivers.
So, just remember when you update your drivers. There are some cases when a person updated his printer drivers and the error disappeared. So, if you check your drivers and everything is fine with them, so you can use some other methods in order to eliminate the problem. For example, you can use the following Fix Wizard for spooler crashing error:
Download Removal ToolHow to eliminate the spooler crashing error?
If don’t want to solve the problem with help of the Fix Wizard you can try just to restart the print spooler service. In order to do it, you can just restart your computer, but if you cannot do it, so, do it with the help of Command Prompt. Sometimes this method helps to solve the problem once and forever:
1. Open Command Prompt, by Pressing Win+R buttons
2. Type there net stop spooler and press enter.
3. Then type net start spooler in the line and again press enter.
4. Try to print anything.
If this method was not helpful for you, you can try to perform another one. For example you can try to clear the print queue:
1. Navigate the following directory:C/Windows/System32/Spool/printers.
2. You should delete all the files that you see in this folder. This folder contains the files of print queue before they will be printed. So, if you will clear this folder, you will clear the print queue and may be after this action your print spooler service will work.
But there are some cases when all these steps are useless, so then you should to perform anything better. For example you can use this Spooler Fix Wizard. Just download this utility, use it and all your problems will end.
