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Corrupt Printer
The print driver for my HP3330 printer seems to have gotten corrupted. It
was working fine but now I can't print to it, check the printer properties, or remove it. Whenever I try to do something to it, the print spooler crashes and I get an error saying the operation can't be completed without the spooler. I can re-start the spooler easily enough but I still can't print because that driver is somehow corrupted. Any ideas for how I might be able to cleanly remove the printer and driver from the system so I can try to re-install? I'm using Vista RTM and the HP3330 driver that was included with Windows. No additional HP software was installed. Mark |
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Corrupt Printer
Navigate to the spool directory and delete any files found there.
X:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS Navigate to the printer listing in Start Printers. Right mouse click on the printer listing and select Delete from the context menu. Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "Markctpr" wrote in message ... The print driver for my HP3330 printer seems to have gotten corrupted. It was working fine but now I can't print to it, check the printer properties, or remove it. Whenever I try to do something to it, the print spooler crashes and I get an error saying the operation can't be completed without the spooler. I can re-start the spooler easily enough but I still can't print because that driver is somehow corrupted. Any ideas for how I might be able to cleanly remove the printer and driver from the system so I can try to re-install? I'm using Vista RTM and the HP3330 driver that was included with Windows. No additional HP software was installed. Mark |