VisualCron is an advanced task scheduler for Windows that supports central management. Its power task scheduling features go far AutoAdministrator allows you to remote execute programs, remote execute services, and remote shutdown and reboot computers. I hate this thing too, I'll try this trick with Print Spooler Service next time.
Thanks for this instruction. This works when you need that print job straight away but sometimes at the end of the day there are still jobs hanging that we dont know about. They end up annoying people the next day. I use "psservice. When staff come to work the next day the spooler is clean and ready. Last time this happened to me was over a network print. Rebooted a few times but didn't work, but oddly, restarting the Print Spooler I was able to delete the job from the queue.
Here is what I do: 1. Cancel the job it then hangs at the 'Deleting - Printing' stage 2. At the command prompt, enter: net stop spooler 3. Then enter: net start spooler 4. Bref F5 to refresh the status of the print queue. Thanks for mentioning psservice. It is a nice tool. Nev, rebooting is pretty much the same as restarting the spooler service. If there are no print jobs in the queue that you want to keep, then you can delete all the files in the spooler directory.
This always works. Pete, you are right, this usually works if the printer is directly connected to the computer. Anonymous, thanks for the tip. The advantage of net start over psservice is that is available on every computer. You have to be real careful restarting the spooler service on a network during the day when you have lots of printers on the domain.
If you restart the spooler you are effectively killing off all jobs from all printers. You'll have staff queing up at the printers wondering where their print jobs are. Thanks for the tip. I was unable to delete a printer because of these jobs. I had to stop the spool service first, but then could remove all print jobs, and remove the printer.
I just had the problem on windows 7. Simple file delete from the spooler after shutting down the service worked great. It didn't event prompt to ask are you sure, are you really sure, didn't ask me if I was happy for the experience, or if I wanted to send feedback. It just worked! This solution worked for me - I had tried all MS fix it and other solutions, both from the MS web sites and from within VIsta, with out success. For those who might not know how to turn off the Windows spooler service, just click on the start menu, type services.
Then find a service named Print Spooler and stop it and then delete the Printers files. Hope it helps. Ran into same problem trying to print odd size document, which hung the printer and could not be removed on Win Vista. Before I had to delete the printer and reinstall, but even that hung in permanent delete mode.
This trick worked and I have isolated a bug when printing odd size docs out of Word that hang everything related to printing. Thanks for the info. We get this problem a lot. I work in a college, we have both network printers and local USB printers. There seems to be no specific reason why this happens. It gets a bit annoying when we have to do this on a local printer, as the logged in user does not have the permissions to run the CMD, so we have to change user or use a hack to get the CMD up.
I would like to know what actually causes this document "hang". Why in the world did Microsoft never fix this stupid, stupid print bug? I've had it happen to me on 7 just as much as Vista.
Your email address will not be published. Uninstalling the driver and installing the Vista package let you print one page and it gets stuck in the spooler.
It turns out when uninstalling the XP package it doesnt remove the dirvers or software. When installing teh Vista version it only upgraded Some bits and not all. Solving the isse involves deleting all the printer files for teh XP install manually and then installing the Vista version.
By doing this it all works as expected. Sunday, March 8, AM. For XP if it says deleting-printing Go to run program in the start menu type in services.
Go back to the printer window and cancel the pending print documents, they should disappear and you can print as normal It worked for me, it might work for you. Sunday, March 8, PM. Dear Mr. Don't even try to deny it.
This worked! I can sleep tonight! Thank you!!! Saturday, April 18, AM. There are two solutions to this problem, one easy one difficult. A Easy solution expensive Why you have to do it this way is beyond me.
If you know what you are doing, you can just delete the ones you want. Tuesday, May 26, AM. I feel for you man. See this was posted a year ago, but replying for the sake of the community. Luckily, there's a workaround. How to force delete print jobs Fortunately, there is a way to delete the hung print job without having to save all your work, close all your applications, and restart your computer.
Tuesday, June 2, PM. Thanks alot! Angry and fed up for a few hours and this saved me! Thanks once again! Sunday, June 28, AM. This is a great fix for a home user, but not in a networked environment with a dozen people printing to the same printer. We've been having this issue for a while now in our office and I'm frustratingly clueless.
Clearing up a print queue is not a problem but we need a solution to prevent it from happening again and again. I can't keep going to each machine to go through all these steps. Our environment has a mix of Vista and XP machines and what's strange is when a Vista user has printed job, it will not delete from the queue which prevents any others from printing. Then what's really weird is a different user, who can have an XP machine, will not be able to print to the same printer either and we DO NOT even use a print server; we print directly to ip.
I've tried disabling AutoTuning, unchecking SNMP in the port settings for the printer, verified it had the latest Vista driver, etc, etc, ad naseum I'd love to hear about any permanent fixes to this issue.
Monday, July 6, PM. Hi, updating the core spooler components and installing the latest drivers is all what you can do. If the problem still reoccurs after that a spooler dump from the time of the problem is needed to find out the cause of the problem. This means you will need professional support. You should open a support case at microsoft if the problem affects your production. Thanks Cengiz, but I'm not familiar with "updating the core spooler components". Also, how can I capture a spooler dump?
Can you please elaborate on that? I feel I've tried everything else. Hi, you should search in Microsoft Knowledgebase for the latest versions of the following components. Core Spooler Components localspl. First install Debugging tools for Windows to capture a full user mode dump. After that the dump should be analysed. Tuesday, July 7, AM.
Thanks Cengiz. I will check this out. Tuesday, July 7, PM. It looks like that someone has removed my last entry. I hope you have copied it? After a reboot I am able to print one job. That job just hangs in the queue "deleting". I have a bat file that I got from this forum that performs the delete of the print jobs just fine. I run it as administrator and the bat file is successful. Now the print queue shows 0 jobs and the Printers folder is empty.
I go to print and the new print jobs hangs up just as before with status of printing, but does not print. Has anyone been successful with this process? Another very frustrated MS user. Thursday, July 30, PM. Friday, August 7, AM. Hi, the problem seems to be a caused by a faulty lexmark printer driver.
The forum members have mentioned only some temporary workarounds. To proof this problem a full user mode spooler dump is needed but this cannot be done in a forum. You should open a support request at MS. The problem is known at lexmark as far as I know.
If you open a support request at Lexmark with the keyword "ThrowDriverException" they know what to do. They will provide you a workaround or a new fixed printer driver. Friday, August 7, PM. Hi arhitect, please kindly provide us more information about your solution and steps so other users can also benefit from this thread. Thanks R. It really worked! Monday, August 17, PM. Markxs is on the money! Thanks for sharing.
Thursday, August 20, PM. Thank you so much. This has solved my problem. I will keep it in mind for futher reference. Saturday, September 12, PM. Works perfect thank you so much. Thursday, October 1, PM. Wednesday, November 4, PM. This also worked in Windows 7. Thanks for the information, it will save me much further frustration. Saturday, November 21, PM.
I had important documents to print out and I had to cancel Betta. These are the exact issues I was having: Cancel does nothing. I want to download Betta again but I need to know how to resolve the printing issues before I do.
Monday, November 30, PM. Thompson and Kompooter you are correct it does work in Win 7. I have had this problem too long to count, with XP and Vista. Again it occurred in Win 7, which I was surprise that it wasn't fixed.
I found that it is easy to correct in Win 7 thanks to Thompson's lead. For those who have installed Win 7 here is how I resolved it: Control Panel Systems and Security, Find and Fix a Problem Hardware and Sound, Use a Printer This opens a troubleshooting dialog box, click next and the spooling problem gone and the doc in the queue printed.
Without the ideas presented here, I was trying everything and getting nowhere. If this is a spooling problem why wasn't it fix in Win 7 or even in Vista.
Tuesday, December 1, AM. Brilliant I have been trying for days to sort this out and with the end task process added - worked beatifully - thankyou. Thursday, December 3, PM. Go to printers, properties, advanced. Uncheck send documents to print spooler- check print directly to printer. The damn spooling can be bypassed!! I had the same problem on an old Lexmark Oh yes, it works! Tuesday, December 8, PM. Thank you!! This is only thing that has actually worked!!!!!
Friday, December 11, AM. Thanks for the tip on restarting the print spooler service! I did not read all the way through but saw the info for vista and used it for XP. Friday, December 11, PM. Well, I have come up with a. The "ping" commands is just to be sure that everything has time to complete an alternative to the sleep command Everytime I get a stuck job, just run the.
I tried the "trash the printer", but don't wanna spend the money on another one Saturday, December 12, AM. I used to be a lower level admin, so I've used a number of different systems. Off the top of my head I can say for sure some dell laptops and desktops from work. Personally I use Toshiba, 3 different models , and also I've used Hp back in the day. For printers, I've used canon, hp, lexmark There is a way to manually fix this, but I thought that was the purpose of GUI software to make things work at the click of a mouse.
Instead I have to open a command windows, or go through services, shut down the spooler, etc etc etc. I mean let me make a quick analogy. I draw lines in mspaint I actually have other graphic software, but again who's counting. It's really tedious to draw it pixel by pixel or to try to keep a straight line with the mouse.
So there is a function that draws a line between any two points. Wow, amazing! Monday, December 14, PM. Thank You so much!! You just saved me so much money from not having to call Geek Squad!!
Thanks again Friday, December 25, PM. This worked like a charm for my HP C printer using Vista. Saturday, January 2, PM. Never had this problem with my other printer which does a lot more work.
This is a Brother HL Seems to be a Microsoft issue rather than a printer manufacturer problem to me though. Thanks for your help. Sunday, January 3, PM. Thank you R Thomson this really works. Simples when you know how I suppose!!!!! To get to task manager, press and hold, Ctrl, Alt, and Delete keys all at the same time and left click Start Task Manager option.
I restarted the print spooler, then changed the printer's processor to RAW like you specified. The only thing different I did was that I used the 'WinPrint' printer processor instead of the default Lexmark printer processor. And I used the 'RAW' data type just as you mentioned. Everything works great Saturday, January 23, PM. Tuesday, January 26, PM. Thanks so much for this information. It solved the problem. Saturday, February 6, AM. Restarting the service did nothing for me, but going into the PRINTERS folder and deleting all the files there I checked the dates to make sure they were corresponding to the stuck print jobs did.
Monday, February 8, AM. Thompson That did it! Sunday, February 14, AM. Thanks, RThompson! After setting it read-only, the "deleting-printing" job started printing, so I restarted the spooler service again. That took care of it..
Tuesday, March 9, PM. After following these steps, it worked great. Thanks for the info. I hope other people find this answer. Thanks again. Wednesday, March 17, PM. Here are a few other possible reasons that files may be getting stuck in the print que; 1. The size of the document is too large 2. Print preferences are set too high should be dpi or less Hope this helps you. Friday, March 19, AM. You are brilliant! Thank you :. Tuesday, March 30, PM.
Been having this type of trouble on Windows Vista Pro with a Lexmark printer for ages. Finally neaded to crack it and your advice worked!
This was exactly what worked for me. My drivers worked fine when I was using Vista, but once I upgraded to windows 7 every document would hang in the spooler until turning the printer off and then back on. Not an IT pro?
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Sign in to vote. I have an HP C which worked fine until recently. Now it won't print - the jobs show in the queue and I can delete them, but they won't print. I hooked the printer up to my laptop and it works fine. It is connected via USB. If I try to delete the printer, it automatically says that the printers are not responding in task manager.
If I unplug it from the USB, there is no indication of a change in hardware or any indication when I plug it back in. I have tried different USB ports but it makes no difference. When I look at the printer properties and try to click on the ports tab, it also quits responding. I have been reading through this forum and was able to finally delete jobs by stopping and starting the print spooler.
Does anyone have any ideas? Monday, July 5, PM. Hope this helps you. Proposed as answer by wragby Saturday, September 8, PM.
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