Fun with Windows

By Murk | Published: August 25, 2008

Anything printer related causes the program to crash with the error:

“spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem and needs to close”

I so love Windows…

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  1. Murk
    Posted August 26, 2008 at 11:17 am | Permalink

    Thanks to this page:
    http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

    It seems to be fixed. I’m using the word ’seems’ advisedly.

    Steps:
    1) Install Cleanspl
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en

    2) Run Cleanspl (leaving computer name blank for ‘this computer’, being careful about what not to remove.
    Bruce says: When you run it, it asks you if you want to remove some things that are actually delivered (and installed by default) with Windows. In most cases, you should answer No to the corresponding prompts (you don’t want to remove the Standard TCP/IP Port or the BJ Language Monitor).

    3) Reinstall printer driver (I have a HP Color (sic) Laserjet 2600n).

    4) Test print.

    This was still a real pain in the butt!

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