When i try to add a printer it gives the errormsg in topic. I searched the net for a solution and i found that in 'start/run/msconfig' in 'services' tab you can look if all microsoft services are selected. Well my 'print spooler' is selected but the status is 'stopped'. How on earth do i get it back to running and how will it stay running each time i run xp... any help greatly appreciated!!! :(

go to Start> Run > CMD and press enter, then type 'net start spooler' for further trouble shooting as to why it is not auto running, go to Start> Control Panel (in classic veiw) > administrative tools > services in there you will find print spooler, make sure that service is set to automatically run, you can also start the service from there and if it can't run it will give you the error as to why Complete Computer Service Inc. NW Indiana

That did the trick. Thx a million Josh!

You can also right click "my computer" and then click on "manager". Then click the + next to "services and applications". Then click on "services". Scroll down to the "print spooler" and double click that. You can restart it from here. I have needed to redo this more than a few times in the past few days. Mine keeps stopping for some reason. When at first you don't succeed... Ask at Computing.net... They always have the answers...

I tried this, but I get another error, "error 32: data error (cyclic redundancy check)" the printer was working fine one day, then the next day...nothing.

I've had the same problem listed above (Print spooler service not running), and have tried the above suggestions and now I'm getting this error message: (Error1068: The dependency service or group failed to start)

hey, i had the same problem and with some tweaking I found that under that same service menu start/control panel/admin. tools/services/ there is a service called RPC locater, I found that once I started that service and then started the print spools service that my printing capabilities were back. Hope this helps -Jon