Print Spooler

[Arizona_kay]

Good Day to All,

I seem to be having a problem with my Print Spooler. While installing my printer drivers that I recently downloaded from Lexmark, it stops me midway through installation saying I need to Start my Printer Spooler. I enter into Control Panel> Administrative Tools>Services, Double Click on Print Spooler and attempt to Start it and this is what I get:

"Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1068: The dependancy service or group failed to start."

This seems odd as my Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is running. When I look at windows task manager>processes, spoolsv.exe cannot be found.

Any idea what I can do? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Arizona_kay

[TechKnickle]

What OS?

[Arizona_kay]

Im running Windows XP - Home edition

[TechKnickle]

Have you tried anything like replacing the print spooler file with a known good one? Maybe it somehow got modified or corrupted? Although this does not seem the likely cause of this problem.

[Arizona_kay]

Any idea where i could find one?

[TechKnickle]

Sure, I'll give ya a copy of mine. Win XP - Home SP2 spoolsv.exe

http://techknickle.tripod.com/spoolsv.zip

[Arizona_kay]

Thanks..
im gonna give it a try right now....ill get back to you whether it works or not

arizona_kay

[Arizona_kay]

Looks like its a no-go. I replaced the file and the same error message came up. ANy other suggestions?

Arizona_kay

[[Neo770]]

Also at a command prompt if you do a sfc /scannow from the command promts that will make window scan the system files for changes and replace any files that are not the right ones.

[Spartan10]

I have the same issue

How did you resolve?

Thanks for helping!