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    recently installed new hp hard drive. when I try to put my pc to sleep a message appears that says "printer spool running try to turn off" and I get no moving screen savers for the same reason. I am new at this so help if u can. My printer is an hp deskjet 5700 series. my pc is hp compaq w/windows xp. I don't know what a spool is or how to turn it off or even why its on.  Then do I need to turn it on again? Why is this message on, it never waas before. Ty if u can help. LindaL103
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    the first thing is that this is not as bad as it seems jsut a pian inthe butt
    the printer softwar on this machien has told the print spooler to stay on, there are 2 things you can do dump the printer software which wont leav eyou with a printer or
    do this and please print this

    click on start,then run
    type this
    services.msc
    hit enter and  a window appears with all the servidces onthe machien when you scroll down the alphebetical list you will find the print spooler right click and se4lect stop
    it will take a minute and the n you should be able to do what you wnat other than print
    to get it back on jsut reboot or if you need the printer do the same the only differencte is that now you right click the print spooler and select start spooler

    the print spooler  take sall the info you need to print and holds it in memory  for the print job and the printer reads it as it prints the pages

    in some printers not sur ewhat your is there is a way to print directly to the printer thereby bypassing the spooler entirely

    send this info to
    Tpneer2@hotmail.com
    and I can send you info on how to set the printer software to do this for you
    Friday, June 12, 2009 11:49 AM

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    The print spooling service allows you to load the print jobs for later printing, ie to put them in the print queue.

    How to start or stop the print spooler?

    Double click Printers and faxes on the Control panel
    Click your printer and select "set printer properties".
    Advanced tap
    Select "Print directly to printer" click Apply and OK.

     

    Or

     

    Right click on My Computer (Computer on Vista) and select Manage

    In the console that opens, pull down the Services menu and applications

    Click on Services

    Double-click on the Print Spooling key

    In the "General" tab, go to Startup Type

    Set the value to Automatic, Manual or Disabled

    To enable or disable the print spooler service immediately, click Stop or Start

    Finally click Apply

    Hope this is helpful.

    Rubel Khan
    • Proposed as answer by Rubel Khan Tuesday, June 9, 2009 9:35 PM
    Tuesday, June 9, 2009 9:34 PM
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    Hello, 

    Thank you for your post!  Unfortunately there is not a current forum to post the question you are asking so I would recommend that you post you question to one of the Discussions in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware located here:  (http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware&cat=en_us_e5435470-8fe7-4dec-9aaf-15d84c2bd21b&lang=en&cr=us)

    Hope that would be helpful.

    Hope that helps!

    Thanks & regards
    Ashawani Tier 2 Application Support Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services Team
    Friday, June 12, 2009 5:50 AM
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    the first thing is that this is not as bad as it seems jsut a pian inthe butt
    the printer softwar on this machien has told the print spooler to stay on, there are 2 things you can do dump the printer software which wont leav eyou with a printer or
    do this and please print this

    click on start,then run
    type this
    services.msc
    hit enter and  a window appears with all the servidces onthe machien when you scroll down the alphebetical list you will find the print spooler right click and se4lect stop
    it will take a minute and the n you should be able to do what you wnat other than print
    to get it back on jsut reboot or if you need the printer do the same the only differencte is that now you right click the print spooler and select start spooler

    the print spooler  take sall the info you need to print and holds it in memory  for the print job and the printer reads it as it prints the pages

    in some printers not sur ewhat your is there is a way to print directly to the printer thereby bypassing the spooler entirely

    send this info to
    Tpneer2@hotmail.com
    and I can send you info on how to set the printer software to do this for you
    Friday, June 12, 2009 11:49 AM