hello trying to print last night and couldnt detect printer by word which confussed me at first so i then went to control panel - printers to find the printer is not their ok:S so i then went to add printer to reinstall this to come accorros the warning "Operation could not be performed, the print spooler is not running" so my question is what the hell has gone wrong and how can i correct this my only quess at the moment is a virus which has attcked this or a generall error some were my initial idea is to repair xp install via cd boot. Before i do so does any one have any ideas thanks Damian Cole Pentium4 3.20ghz@ 3.7ghz 1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200CL2 1 X 80GB HDD OS 2 x 250gb NVDIA GeForce4 MX4000 ASUS P4-U800-X 600w PSU 12v 1-14amp 2-15amp Win Xp

I.ve seen printers reappear after a simple reboot. I had a similar problem with a few computers at work running McAfee VirusScan. I uninstalled it, rebooted, and the printers reappeared. I then reinstalled McAfee and everything continued to work.

Maybe the Print Spooler service is actually stopped (not running) Go to Start->Run Type cmd and then hit enter in the command prompt box: type net start then hit enter. This will show services running. See if Print Spooler is listed. If it is not - type net start "print spooler" then hit enter If the Print Spooler Service doesn't start, maybe reboot the computer. Search Engines Are Your Friends ☺ Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. "The Matrix"

thanks guys, well tried all this but no luck so ended up running a repair xp pro, works fine now :) Pentium4 3.20ghz@ 3.7ghz 1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200CL2 1 X 80GB HDD OS 2 x 250gb NVDIA GeForce4 MX4000 ASUS P4-U800-X 600w PSU 12v 1-14amp 2-15amp Win Xp