I have a epson cx3200 and the spoolsv.exe is slowing my comp to a crawl by eating 90% of my cpu.I saw a possible fix for this was to either uninstall service pack 2 or copy spoolsv from longhorn and install on my copy of XP. Are there any other solutions to this ? thanks & bye Tom

To be really sure , run a virus check from 1 or all of these . Online Virus check ( free ) http://housecall.antivirus.com/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/misc/av.php http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/activescan-com.asp http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&close_parent=true&plfid=23&pkj=HXJDYNBRFNJSVSTIVVB This also may help . http://torque.oncloud8.com/archives/000384.html

thanks for the reply. I have tried all the obvious things such as a trojan and checking the latest drivers etc. A google search for spoolsv and cpu will reveal that thousands of people are also having the same problem, it is possibly a microsoft fault, ( or maybe its one of their "features"!) So i really need to try the uninstalling service pack 2 as i am running out of ideas. How do i uninstall serice packs ? Also if anyone has any help for the ram eating spoolsv.exe please let me know as i am desperate. thanks bye Tom

Do this: 1. Stop the Print Spooler service 2. Go to C:\Windows\system32\spool\Printers 3. Delete all the files in folder 4. Restart the Print Spooler service Hope this works for you.