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KillPrintJobsThere are times when it seems impossible to remove jobs from the print queue of a particular printer. This is often the case when I play with network printers and get the port settings wrongs: Windows keeps trying to send the print job to a non-existent machine and it becomes impossible to remove the job through the traditional way (cancelling or deleting it from the printer properties). I found the following to be very effective when the print job hasn't left the Windows machine. Open a Command Prompt and type: NET STOP SPOOLER CD \ CD %Systemroot%\System32\Spool\Printers (if that doesn't work try:) CD %Winroot%\System32\SpoolPrinters DIR (try to identify the .SPL file that is the problem - the date is probably a good clue) (if you CAN identify it, delete the .SPL and .SHD files (otherwise del all the .spl and .shd files) DEL *.SPL (or spcific if you can figure out which) DEL *.SHD NET START SPOOLER SourceLeave your comments below |