Windows 7 professional print spooler keeps stopping

Event , The print spooler failed to load print provider localspl. Event , The print spooler failed to load a plug-in module localspl. See the event user data for context information. The only occurrence of localspl. Checked my husband's laptop he prints to same printer and he has a standalone localspl. That seems like that could be my problem or one of them.

If you agree, is it safe to just copy over the localspl. Is there somewhere I can download a 'safe' uncorrupted localspl.

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I looked at the Date Modified of my spoolsv. I cam into work this morning and am unable to print. It stops about 30 seconds after it starts or whenever I go look at the printers. Please help! Wednesday, September 22, PM. Solution worked great for me. Well done. Friday, October 29, AM. Worked great for me for now. Let's hope it still works after rebooting. Anyway, thanks for the input. Wednesday, November 17, PM.

Hi, I am having these same problems now. I know this thread is old, but I am hoping someone will see and can still help me. So far, this solution seems the most promising I have seen. I can follow your instructions fine until I get to step 6.

I type in the command prompt, but I get the message that my syntax is wrong. And so my problem persists. Monday, February 28, PM. Thanks Freak05, I think it has finally worked.

Seemed whenever I tried to print something off the Internet, the print spooler dropped out. Could this be an Internet Explorer 9 issue? Can't remember having this problem under IE8. Tuesday, March 29, PM. I think this might be an IE9 issue, but I'm not sure. Funny, I've had Windows 7 installed on my computer for five months, no problems, but as soon as I install IE9, this print spooler thing has happened five times! I had this problem too and your method fixed it!

Thanks so much!! Thursday, April 14, AM. Wednesday, May 4, PM. Hi All , I had the same problem, Last thing used did was to try print something of internet. Proposed as answer by jondspen Wednesday, October 26, AM. Wednesday, May 18, PM. Seems there are several ways to get this problem If you're issue is not IE9 related, it's maybe drivers or OS badness, then A sure fire way to get back to the pristine setup of the printers on the system without re-installing is to grab another machine with a fresh install of windows of the appropriate version and architecture x64 or x86 you could even make a VM, and use that fresh install as a source to replace the bad bits of the machine you are struggling with 1 On the bad machine run services.

I have done this myself a few times and got out of jail with it, not had the IE9 issues Proposed as answer by hydorah Monday, July 4, PM. Monday, July 4, PM. None of these fixed my problem, what did fix my problem was uninstalling Oracle's Sealed Media plug-in. Just in case anyone else has this installed, it has a glitch that disables the print spooler even when it isn't running.

Thursday, July 28, PM. When deleting the files there were 29 files that I could not delete so I skipped them. Then I started the print spooler and everything seems fine I haven't yet tried to print anything. Tuesday, August 2, PM. Thursday, August 18, AM. I didn't need to do anything with the spoolsv. I was logged in with administrative privileges. My spooler was already stopped and all I did was open the command prompt and ran your delete command and voila!

No more print spooler stopping problems. I was finally able to remove the old printers via the control panel and install the new one. My sister is so happy and I am too! Sunday, August 28, PM. This worked for me. Monday, September 5, AM. Saturday, September 17, PM. We had been printing flawlessly, until about July when we installed MS Recommended updates.

Anyhow, just our two cents on this horriffic problem. Thx, Chuck. Monday, October 10, PM. After 3 hours I found you and all my troubles were solved! Monday, October 17, AM. Did the restart service steps Deleted files in spool folder Wednesday, October 26, AM. Worked for me, too. Monday, November 14, PM. Much to my surprise it worked for me too. Friday, November 18, PM. Thanks a lot. It took me few hours to fix this problem.

I checked the file I deleted and I found this problem occurred after I used adobe's software. This problem happened again when I try to print PDF from online bank website. Finally I printed out the document from my other laptop with windows xp. Saturday, December 10, PM.

Thanks, it worked!! Thursday, January 12, PM. It worked great, thanks,. Wednesday, January 18, AM. It works like a charm - thank you so much. Friday, March 2, AM. I tried many of the things here with no luck.

Finally, I removed and readded all printers. That finally stuck. Mine was on a domain connected machine tied to network printers. Wednesday, March 14, PM. Friday, March 16, PM. Worked for me. Wednesday, March 21, PM. You are having a common print spooler error. Here's the fix. Sunday, March 25, PM. I was able to print anything other than PDFs. Since then has worked like a charm. Tuesday, March 27, PM. Wednesday, April 4, PM.

Hi there, I have the same problem as mentioned above, and have tried all the methods suggested, yet still not fixed. The printer was working perfectly and suddenly just stopped working. Nothing works. The print job will be submitted to the queue and disappeared before it has been printed. Please help I dont know what else to do now, losing too much productive time here already!!!

Wednesday, April 11, AM. Thanks Arthur Li. Monday, April 16, AM. Hello, All! Arthur's solution worked for me, even though my situation was a little different. It worked like a charm! Thanks, Arthur! Tuesday, April 17, PM. Saturday, April 28, PM. Is it the end of a troublesome error dating back to ?

Anyone know what fixed the problem? Hope this helps, Gerry. Sunday, April 29, PM. Hi Gerry, I have had that Event ID: "Document failed to print and was deleted because of corruption in the spooled file.

Step 3 Remove your printer and driver and then re-install from scratch Step 4 Consider replacing your printer if it is not fully supported or fully compatible with the operating system you use i.

Wndows 7 using Windows Vista Print Drivers because that is all the printer manufacturer offer for that model If you have recently found that the issue has just gone then perhaps a recent update such as the "printing rollup update for Windows 7 and Server R2" that I mention in my earlier post above might have sorted your problem.

Hope this helps you or someone else. Wednesday, May 2, PM. Stuart You did not read what I wrote! The problem has been fixed. I do not need a solution! I corrected by backing up all files, restoring to factory condition and restoring backed up files. I was impatient and this seemed quicker. Everything is OK now. Thx for your help. Friday, May 4, PM. Sunday, June 3, AM. See Panout's reply. My problem was keep getting message "printer spooling not working" something like that.

Then it will say the driver is not installed in your computer and ask you if you wanna install it. Then click yes and voila! It will solve the problem. Good luck and email me if you still have any problem.

Saturday, June 30, AM. Your solution worked for me and I now have both my printers back in use. I am using Windows 7 and IE9. Suspect that clicking the Print button on an internet site yesterday when reserving an item for collection at the local outlet of a national high street retailer may have caused the problem.

Sunday, July 22, AM. I, too, would like to thank Mr. The above solution worked perfectly. I have no idea what caused the problem, my printers had been installed and working fine for years, but I deleted all the files he suggested with some trepidation and rebooted and everything works fine now. Friday, July 27, PM. It Worked Amazingly,I was thinging of reformatting the laptop with windows 7,but u given the best solution A Billion Thanks dude.

Thursday, August 23, AM. Edited by sunshine Wednesday, August 29, PM. Wednesday, August 29, PM. Hello There. All other HP printers are getting installed. You can try the following steps that involve complete removal of the drivers associated with the printer and reinstalling afresh on the system while communicating with the printer:. Step 2: Create a restore point. You may refer to the following link for creating restore point:. Step 3: Boot your computer in the safe mode. Step 6: Edit the registry as follows:.

Type in regedit and click OK. Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

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