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After SP2 spoolsv.exe 100%CPU
Name: andynz22 Date: August 31, 2004 at 21:58:24 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4/512Mb
Comment:
After installing XP SP2 I cannot print to network printers, spoolsv.exe is at or near 100% CPU usage. The printing worked fine before installing SP2 and works fine if you uninstal SP2. I tried deleting anything in windows/system32/spool/printers but it didn't help.
Name: nudesign Date: September 1, 2004 at 03:18:42 Pacific
Reply:
yes this is a bug with sp2, i would not reccommend uninstalling as this causes more problems, exactly why i havent patched mine until its neccessary.
search microsoft kb for more info
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Response Number 2
Name: disneylogic Date: September 6, 2004 at 16:55:51 Pacific
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What I found is that I can print to network printers, although accessing them takes a LONG time. Curiously, I still have a DOS-based editor which prints to a network printer instantly. (One win for old DOS!)
Ironically and with some significant poetic justice, what does not work at all, at least for us, is trying to print to a network printer from any MS Office application, notably MS Word.
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