Well, guess what, I have the same problem as the rest of you. Only when it happens to me, it takes up 100% of my CPU time, rendering the system pretty much useless. What is so wierd about the whole thing is that it seems to happen randomly. Just started the computer after being off all weekend, did not print, or do anything other than open Outlook to view email, and...SPOOLSV.exe started, slowing the system way down. Perhaps if enough of us complain that we are having trouble, someone in MS or Novell will look into getting a solution worked out. None of the solutions here worked for me.....I had hopes though. :)

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I have the same problem, only I can't get any relief by stopping and starting the spooler. I did recently install the latest Adobe reader, but the problem didn't cripple me until yesterday and now won't let go no matter how many reboots. Am using Novell and MS networks.

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Guess what... I have the same problems. Only that my spoolsv problem starts, after booting. So i always have to restart the service after booting. If I start it manually it works as well. I read some solutions in different discussion groups, but none seemed to be the right solution. IMHO all solutions which worked only did that by "accident", i.e. the problem is somewhere else...

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SOLUTION! Not mine but I asked the right guy: "I found that the problem was caused by a combination of Windows 2000, Novell Netware Client and Matrox Powerdesk. The best way around it is to close the powerdesk and prevent it from automatically starting (the setting is in the registry windows\currentversion\run....pdesk.exe)." It really worked, but as soon as you start any Matrox programm, the spoolsv runs wild again. Markus

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I tried Markus Knauer's solution and it worked perfectly.

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Hi all, I've got the same problem, but I'm not running on a Novell network and I don't have a Matrox graphic card... It must be something else...

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Hello all, I've had this problem and the only way to cure it that I could find was to get rid of the Novell client and use the Windows 2000 csnw. Obviously this is not an ideal solution but it worked for me. And there is sod all mention of this on either Technet or the Novell site.

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Good one Robert, While it does present a few problems for us (our network is almost entirely Netware), your solution is the only one that worked. I tried so many potential solutions from this site and others, as we had many of the same variables at work in our situation, i.e. Microsoft network client, Novell client, Matrox G400 card with Powerdesk, but none of the solutions offered worked for us. The weirdest thing is that only 1 of the 4 Windows 2000 machines we have distributed thus far has had this problem. The other 3 machines are set up the same, what's the variable? The Red Virus (Novell) strikes again. I'm becoming more of a believer in Windows NT/2000 Server every day!!!

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Well I have a dell inspiron 3800 laptop, installed w2k lovely installed a photocopier as the printer then spoolsv.exe sucks up cou time and hangs word 2000. So i thought ok re install as I had read lots of groups that said there was no cure, well guess what exactly same thing again !. Admittently i did not FDISK it, will this time and see if that makes a difference. Regrads Paul

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We don't have Netware, but on one Win 2k Pro spoolsv sucked up all idle cpu power after installing a certain set of printer drivers (Brother HL-1050) from the manufacturer. Changed to Win 2k unidriver and spoolsv works perfectly. Certainly something wrong there..

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I have the same problem with win2k, novell client 4.8 and Matrox G400-G200. The spool service use 30% of CPU. I almost found a solution by edit the .inf of matrox driver and put some ; at lines who install matrox services. But this is not an ideal solution.

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I am having a similar problem as you all have described however, I do not have the Netware client installed. I am running Windows 2000 Professional. It seems to occur when I run an ICA connection to a Windows 4.0 Terminal Server. I think I could involve a bad print driver because the terminal server is set to autocreate the printers I have configured on my local box. I don't have the problem when I get out of the ICA session and then stop and start the spooler. I'll look at the print drivers to see if there is a particular driver causing the problem.

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Try this...it worked for us! Turned out to be a Novell issue. http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10059191.htm

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For me it was the graphics driver. I use the Nvidia Detonator drivers. Using the latest nvcpl.dll it max out the processor but using an older on works fine. I know, its nothing to do with the printers but it works. I also have Novell but the above fix's didnt work for me.

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I am having the same problem, but as with Danny, I found that it is directly related to the nVidia drivers. I set up a system fresh with Win2K SP1 and the Netware 4.8 client. Everything ran perfectly. After installing the nVidia driver, the SPOOLSV.exe process sat at about 25% and ate memory until I either rebooted or executed a NET STOP SPOOLER command from a CMD prompt. In my case, following Danny's advice, I replaced the nvcpl.dll file (which is "upgraded" with the nVidia driver) with an older version and the problem was solved.

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I had this problem on a Dell precision workstation with Novell except it wasn`t Novell, it was my nVidia GFX card drivers. nvcpl.dll to be exact. With the newer drivers it would have this problem but the very latest 21.xx series its all fine now.

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Im having the same problem as u guys, and I have Novell, win2k sp2, Geforce 2 MX, Matrox Quickdesk. One thing that I dont find here is my problem with network traffic, when the spooler goes wild and crazy and eats a lot of memmory it generates a lot of traffic on the net to. check the local area connection icon or get a bandwith monitor, maybe u have the same problem but didnt notice.

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Hi I get the same problem where spoolsv takes 70-100% of cpu after boot up. I'm running Win 2K and novell 4.8. I've loaded the patch fix from Novell's website but its made no difference. Only way to stop it is net stop spooler from command prompt.

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Hi, we get the same problem with W2k and Novell 4.80.2000 etc we use an NDPS printing system and Norton's Ghost for imaging. We ghost a box and change the host name to the clients username, and then it starts. Thats fine so we use Ghost walker and this makes changes in the registry and is meant to fix the problem. It doesn't, but if we add an extra five characters to the host name it fixes the problem sometimes, what has the size of the host name got to do with spoolsv?

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