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Name: Chris
Date: October 5, 2003 at 12:07:12 Pacific
Subject: Print spooler service
OS: XP Prof
CPU/Ram: 1Ghz, 384Mb
Comment:

Printing stopped working.
Tried to restart the Print Spooler service and get the message:
"Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer"
"Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified"
Has anyone any ideas as to which files it is talking about and how to get them.


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Name: Nikita
Date: October 23, 2003 at 16:54:47 Pacific
Reply:

Enable all the microso0ft services in system configuration utility.
Click on start then on run type in msconfig.
Then click on the services tab and then enable all.Click ok and restart the computer.
Try this and lemme know.


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