Windows 7 printer detection

The laptops worked fine three months from the installation of the last device. The installations are correct - with bit drivers bit driver can not work. By this error the spooler is not stopped.

The new installation or "add a printer approach" are needed. I too am having this issue, I have a windows 7 bit machine which has been working fine for about 4 month. Today the user gets an error saying that a program is not responding correctly, and when he shuts down and restarts, it appears that his printers have disappeared, I have ran the service under admin login to see if it was his account but still as soon asI have started the Spooler, it stops again meaning i cannot add the printer back on.

I have tried giving the user ownership of the exe file, but seen as it won't work under the admin log in which has access, it still isn't working. Is there a fix for this, could it be a windows update? Or is there anything else I can try? I have wrestled with this issue on a client's computer for a few days now and I am coming to the conclusion that a Windows Update do not know which one has caused the problem. Printers disappeared from Devices and Printers and from the list of printers within applications.

A reboot does nothing and there is a DCOM error that occasionally pops up, but the client has only seen it and I don't know the specifics. Any attempt to start the Print Spooler gives me a error, which is "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. As a last resort I did an in-place upgrade of Windows 7 run setup on the installation DVD from Windows - not from boot - and choose the upgrade option. All Windows system files are restored and user information is left in tact.

This completely solved the problem. After doing this, however, the Windows Updates need to be brought up to date, so I went through the updating process. I have come back today to figure this out and after trying a couple more things I decided to do a System Restore, the last of which was created before the installation of Windows Updates.

After running restore, the system rebooted and all printers were there and the spooler was running normally. Because I thought there was some other issue, I again ran Windows Update to bring back the same updates I had done before. I am now going to restore again to before the 64 windows updates that installed and turn off the automatic update function until Microsoft figures out what is wrong and comes up with a patch. This is what I believe the problem is. I have a new PC 4 months - windows 7 Ultimate.

I then printed a PDF document I had and the printers disappeared. I tried another registry restore but windows will not let me do that.

I'm just doing an entire disk image restore. I've had this same problem in the past on a windows 7 Home Prem system, always when printing a particular PDF document. Apparently, that is not the issue. Windows has a major bug somewhere and it's been around for more that a year. Open the Drivers section. Select all the print drivers , right click, Set driver isolation, shared. This will prevent the print driver from corrupting the memory of the spooler service during the rendering process.

The job most likely will not print, but the spooler service will not crash due to this failure. Send the WER reports so someone can take a look at the crash dump file created and assign the failure to the correct party. As soon as I launched printmanagement. As a result, I could not open the Drivers section; any suggestions? Thank you! I have the same problem and same resulting error I too have the print spooler service has stopped, I simply turn it back on and I can print for a few minutes then it shuts itself off.

This all started in early December on two pc's. I was able to update the print driver on the other PC but mine is still acting up. We have over 20 windows 7 systems mostly pro.

I am glad it is only my pc but I want and demand an answer. This is not acceptable Microsoft! Has anyone from microsoft got back to you on this one as no one here has the right long term answers to resolve this problem. Is this a windows update that is casuing the print spooler to stop and all printers to dissappear local and networked.

I have also cleared out the driver folders too in windows which helped for a little while and then the problem came back. If you manually deleted the driver files and the problem came back, the top of the list points to one of the print drivers you have installed on the client machine which is corrupting the process memory of spoolsv.

Report back the Faulting Module name if it's something other than ntdll. Sony Vaio laptop, Windows 7 Pro 64 factory installed. Uses a Dell network printer as primary printer. Symptom: After a recent Windows update: no printers listed, print spooler service is not running, manual restart of spooler service fails error.

Workaround: system restore to early January, reboot, print spooler and printer works - until the next automatic update - I've done this twice so far. My conclusion: Some component of a recent update breaks the print spooler. I will meet customer again this afternoon and try to narrow it down somewhat more. Of course, I could just disable auto-updates as a last resort.

Not a good idea in the long run though. I have the same problem, which appeared after about 8 Feb My printers dissappeared from my devices file. I restored back to a point on 8 Feb 13 and my HP printer reappeared. Level 1. Message 1 of 2. HP Recommended. Product: hp Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 bit. Tags 3. Tags: hp Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help.

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