How to Fix Print Spooler Service Keeps Stopping in Windows 7, 8, & 8.1
Print Spooler is the backbone of the printing process carried out from your PC. It should perform flawlessly while your PC is sending commands to print certain documents. Unfortunately, Print Spooler malfunctions in some Windows and doesn’t work even after manually starting it unless you debug the problem and fix it properly. This article clearly shows you how to fix automatic stopping problem of Print Spooler in Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. You will not see any kind of warning messages when your Print Spooler has stopped in Windows 8 and 8.1. When you give the command for printing a document from Word, Excel or some other software then the options for selecting the appropriate printers don’t appear. The available printers will appear grayed out in the Control Panel as shown below. When the print spooler is not running, you cannot even see the properties of the printer.
You will see the following error message in previous version of the Windows when you try to print or view printer properties. “The print spooler service is not running”. It simply means that there is something wrong with the print spooler service on your PC.
Steps for Fixing Printer Spooler Service Not Running/Stops Automatically Issue on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
Start the print spooler from “Services” or from the command prompt. Services can be easily located in the Computer Management section. It can be found easily in Windows 8/8.1 by searching it with Services.msc.
Locate Print Spooler in Services. It might be in the stopped state. Start it now.
The same process can be done through commands. Open command prompt with administrator privileges (Run as Administrator).
Use command “Net start spooler” for initiating spooler services.
To stop printer spooler services, use command “Net stop spooler”.
If print spooler keeps on stopping again, even after restarting it, use the following steps. This method is useful when print spooler is malfunctioning due to random reasons, even though Printer is fine physically and no paper is jammed in it.
You need to clear the print spooler files which are temporarily stored in printing jobs. Print spooler will restart and will probably run smoothly next time. The files are stored in Spool->Printers directory that lies in the Windows->System 32 folder of your root directory. The queue will be disabled when you clear these files.
In most of the cases, these steps should rectify the issues with print spooler.
Further Methods for Fixing Print Spooler Problems
Go to Recovery tab from Print Spooler services section as mentioned earlier. Choose ”Restart the Service” in the subsequent fields of failure. Hence, it will try restarting the print spooler service whenever it malfunctions.
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This may stop the problem, but may still not fix it properly. Go to Dependencies and make sure that all the depending services are started. The last method is to make sure that you have installed correct drivers for your printer. If not, then delete all the existing printer drivers and find the right match from the website of the company or from the CD available with the printer.
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