Win 7 32bit and print spooler

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Hi,

I am having a problem whereby one of my users who has a Windows 7 machine, is unable to print when she logs on in the morning. If I restart the print spooler on her machine then fine she can print.... until she logs off in the evening and logs back on in the morning.

The printers are not installed via GPO, they are network printers which are installed manually. I have checked the print spooler settings in services on the users machine and it is set to automatic restart.

Any advice?

Apologies for the patchy information. Let me know if any further info is required.

Thanks in advance :)
 
Had this very same problem with one of our guys, never did find a proper fix but what I did was write a windows script that restarts the spooler on boot.

Seemed to do the trick for us. you don't need to make it a AD script either create a batch file and use the old:

@Echo reset printer
net stop "print spooler"
@Echo Spooler stopped
net start "print spooler"
@Echo Spooler started

Save the batch file somewhere and then drag it into the startup folder in the taskbar. On boot it will restart the spooler for you :) (remember that when using cmd prompt you will need to kick it off with elevated privilages because of uac, do this by modifying the properties with the admin switch).

She might notice the little black cmd prompt window on start pop up then dissapear, but once her printers work day in day out this will soon be forgotten :)

Hope this helps at least until you find a proper fix, for me, well instead of wasting more time this became my proper fix and was incorporated into our ad scripts.
 
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Hi Vince,

Sorry for the late reply. Many thanks for this. Ill give it a go and see how it goes.

:)
 
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