Posts Tagged "printing"

Can’t Cancel Print Job in Windows Vista?

Posted by Alamoxie Web Design on May 18, 2011 in Tech Tips & Tricks | 0 comments

The other day I ran into an odd problem–one which actually seems not uncommon in Windows Vista, to judge from some Googling I did. For some reason, a print job I was trying wouldn’t print. Not only would it not print, but when I opened the print queue that job was still in there, and would refuse to be canceled or delete. When I would try to print anything else, it would not print until the hung print job would complete. It took a while to figure out what to do about this. I discovered that if I restarted the “Print Spooler” service I might be able to print one document, but then I would have to do this every time I wanted to print. The real...