Hi all, need some help regarding the spoolsv.exe, keeps generating errors and shutting down, making it impossible to print. I assume that the file is corrupted but I don't know where the file is. Tried lookin in the Win2000 cd but with no luck any suggestions would be welcome. Good Day Matt

It might just be a common oversight of not turning on the print spooler service in the serves. 1.Goto settings/Control Panel 2.Administrative Tools 3.Services 4.Print Spooler and click on it, click right properties. Switch it to automatic, hit start, apply, and hopefully that does it. It is defaulted to manual I believe so it needs to be turned on.

I dont think so, the service is activated by default. Due to memory problems, my spool is corrupted too. The question is : how to restore it ? Where can we find the files (and which files ?)...

I have a Lexmark Z31 printer on Win2000 and after a print error, the spoolsv.exe message comes up. I tried to delete it and replace it with another (Win2K will replace it as soon as it sees the file missing anway) to no avail. Then I tried to remove the printer driver- no luck in that fixing it. Resetting the printer spooler will not work either. Been there done that. Hope someone else can find a fix.

Problem: Error was a pop up window upon startup with the following error message: "SPOOLSV.EXE has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program". I could not print, my printer were gone, and I could not add a printer. Trying this would give the error message: "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources." Solution: 1.Goto settings/Control Panel 2.Administrative Tools 3.Event viewer 4 Clear All Events You can also choose the properties for each one of these events. Once there you can choose to either increase the max. log size, Overwrite as needed, Overwrite by number of days, or purge these events manually. I prefered to increase my Max log and to Overwrite as needed.

I'm still having problems with mine after fixing the spoolsv.exe. After doing everything, when I go to add a printer it says: "Printer Operations can not continue due to lack of resources. The print subsystem is unavailable." I KNOW I should have enough resources, but what could be causing this.

I have been noticing that some of my machines are getting memory leaks through the print spooler of Windows 2000 machines. I'm still looking into the problem but this is why some of you are getting out of memory errors. After booting the PC, go to your control panel, select services, stop the printspool service and restart it. This should help for your computing session.