Windows: spoolsv.exe Using 99% CPU December 18, 2006
Posted by devhen in Windows.trackback
I don’t find myself interested in Windows very often, or any proprietary operating system for that matter, but I ran into this problem on one of the computers in our office and thought I would share the solution. If you come across the problem of spoolsv.exe using 99% CPU usage, never fear. There is a solution. And its a rather easy one. Click here for the fix. Thanks to Tim for his journal entry pointing this out.
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very helpful
I have other kind of problem:one of the pc in a network says that ‘spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem’ and it has to close ,that with ‘send/don’t send’,and the printer doesn’t work at all,and we can’t even open the folder ‘printer and faxes from”control panel.Could give me an advice,please?
IT CAME BACK YOU Douchebag!
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very helpful
thank you
Hi Dear
CAn you say me how we can rely on a such comment like you please?
I had this problem too (spoolsv.exe taking up 99-100% of cpu) and found your post.
I also found this post which explains the issue very helpfully,
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000914.htm
So simple. Thanks a lot.
Thanks,
-Te
Thanks, works great now. As for Robert, get a Tech, then get a life!
I WAS SOOOO PISSSED when this fuc88ing thing happened
Read your tips and it helped!!! ..I owe U a bottle of VODKA
thank you
All you need to do is “end process tree” the process and then attempt your print job again. that what i did and no problems and works fine now.
lol if spoolsv uses 100% resources, unless you’re on a pentium 1 and I have no idea how you’d ever see your desktop, then what you have is not the windows process but a virus disguised as the windows process.
Thnaks a lot…it worked well
Thank a lot, So simple, it worked well
WOW!!! Far Out
Thanks
Worked like a charm and made me look like a tech hero. Thanks very much
this will work
go to control panal,
open administarive tools.
click on services
go down to print spooler
click on startup type and click disable
then under it click on stop
then click on the recovery tab at the top
change all to take no action
and presto no more problems
do a full system scan with any antivirus just to make sure
It Does NOT work – keeps coming back again.
I had a very similar problem with every workstation in a network environment. Spoolsv.exe was eating the CPU cycles and more.
The issues were that the repeated tries to communicate with the server by spoolsv.exe were killing the performance of the workstations (50-99% utilization), and they were eating up the bandwidth on a gigabit network. Outlook’s very slow connecting to Exchange was an obvious sign of the loss of bandwidth.
The issue in my case was a corrupted printer on the server, and in particular, it was something to do with the network path (\\servername\printer).
The resolution was that I ultimately killed the printer on the server. Then on each workstation killed spoolsv.exe, deleted the printer that was trying to get to the server, then restarted the spooler service.
At that point, reinstalling the printer on both server and workstations fixed everything.
For those not in a corporate network environment, I do recommend that you stop the spooler service and clean out the \windows\system32\spool\printers folder, but then also install and run Spybot for “usage tracks”.
This deletion of usage tracks by Spybot can fix this type of ghost connection problem. I have found it to be especially helpful when a computer is trying to connect to a server that is no longer there (renamed or removed).
All the best,
Kevin Cotreau
MCSE+I, MCNE
what does spoolsv.exe do? is it helpful or is it harmful? it only uses the cpu 50% but i am concerned if it’s a threat to my pc….if i disable it i might just mess things up…..maybe i cant be able to print
I HAVE A COMPUTER……NO TIME TO READ A BOOK…..!
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hey, thanks for the info.
very very helpful Thank a lot, So simple, it worked well
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print spooler service is not running
how to fix this problem
I am posting this solution for those who tried above solution with no luck.
How to Repair SPOOLSV.exe
By Chris Hoffman, eHow Contributor
SPOOLSV.exe manages printing on Windows. A damaged SPOOLSV.exe results in error messages such as \”Spoolsv.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows,\” \”Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources\” or \”Subsystem unavailable.\” or Processor always Shooting up to 100%, Repair SPOOLSV.exe and fix the Windows printing system by uninstalling corrupted printers and printer drivers and editing the registry, then reinstalling your printers.
Instructions
Uninstall Printers and Printer Drivers:
1. Open the Printers control panel by clicking \”Start,\” then \”Printers and Faxes.\”
2. Remove all printers by right-clicking on them, clicking \”Delete,\” then confirming by clicking \”Yes.\”
3. Open the Print Server Properties window by clicking \”File\” in the Printers window, then clicking \”Server Properties.\”
4. Click the \”Drivers\” tab at the top of the Print Server Properties window.
5. Remove all installed printer drivers by clicking them, clicking \”Remove,\” then confirming by clicking \”Yes.\”
Edit the Registry:
6. Open the Registry Editor by clicking \”Start,\” clicking \”Run,\” typing \”regedit.exe\” into the \”Run\” window, then clicking \”OK.\”
7. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows NT x86\\Drivers\\Version-2\” using the plus signs next to the registry keys in the Registry Editor window and delete all items in the \”Version-2\” folder by right-clicking them, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
8. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows NT x86\\Drivers\\Version-3\” and delete all items in the \”Version-3\” folder by right-clicking them, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
9. Navigate to \”KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows NT x86\\Drivers\\Version-2\” and delete all items in the \”Version-2\” folder by right-clicking them, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
10. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows NT x86\\Drivers\\Version-3\” and delete all items in the \”Version-3\” folder by right-clicking them, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
11. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Monitors\” and delete any item that is not \”AppleTalk Printing Devices,\” \”BJ Language Monitor,\” \”Local Port,\” \”PJL Language Monitor,\” \”Standard TCP/IP Port,\” \”USB Monitor\” or \”Windows NT Fax Monitor\” by right-clicking it, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
12. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Print\\Monitors\” and delete any item that is not \”AppleTalk Printing Devices,\” \”BJ Language Monitor,\” \”Local Port,\” \”PJL Language Monitor,\” \”Standard TCP/IP Port,\” \”USB Monitor\” or \”Windows NT Fax Monitor\” by right-clicking it, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
13. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Printers\” and delete all items in the \”Printers\” folder by right-clicking them, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
14. Navigate to \”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Print\\Printers\” and delete all items in the \”Printers\” folder by right-clicking them, clicking \”Delete,\” then clicking \”Yes.\”
15. Restart your computer by clicking \”Start,\” \”Shut Down,\” then \”Restart.\”
Reinstall Printers:
16. Open the Printers control panel by clicking \”Start,\” then \”Printers and Faxes.\”
17. Double-click \”Add Printer.\”
18. Click \”Next\” in the \”Add Printer Wizard\” welcome window.
19. Automatically search for and reinstall the printer by clicking \”Local Printer\” in the \”Add Printer Wizard\” window, then clicking \”Next.\”
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