Question:
Printer queue question?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Printer queue question?
Nine answers:
Mike
2007-04-14 16:17:10 UTC
As stated above. Stop and Start the print spooler service. If it does not remove the document, you will at least finally be able to delete it yourself.



Use the command prompt as stated before or:



Right-Click My Computer

Manage

Services

**Find the Print Spooler Service and click the stop/restart button.
dudeboy
2007-04-14 16:25:38 UTC
You need to go to your services and restart your printer spooler.
?
2016-12-04 06:11:43 UTC
the technique varies from printer to printer, yet the following steps will be functional: 0. in case your printer has an internet interface, use this to cancel the print activity. no matter if it really is not indexed there, probably it has no longer received it yet. a million. eliminate any last paper, or in basic terms open the tray (if there is one). this may stress the printer to quit and pay interest. Cancel the activity in case you are able to. 2. turn off the printer. Re-attempt canceling the print activity and elements it some moments. 3. at the same time as the printer is off, restart your computing device; it really is going to then ought to restart the print activity from the starting up, assuming it hasn't thoroughly given up on it by technique of then. this can make it a lot less stressful to cancel the print activity, so attempt lower back. 4. turn on the printer lower back. At this factor, if the printer resumes printing, i'm no longer positive what to point. If it has stopped printing and the print activity remains there and nevertheless refuses to be canceled, attempt replacing the paper with junk paper and printing out a try web page; If that works, then you definitely can wisely overlook with reference to the errant activity and it would finally eliminate itself.
F
2007-04-14 16:17:33 UTC
That"s a good one.

Did you try reboot computer and try again.

How big is the file?

And are you giving the machine enough time to delete.
Bill
2007-04-14 16:15:27 UTC
Try highlighting the document in the print queue and see if you can delete it then.
anonymous
2007-04-14 16:10:43 UTC
Yes at work this happened to me and what I did was open the control panel for the printer, then and see what file was stuck in the queue and removed it. For some reason this happens a lot to others and it is because the printer had a small problem so find the printer options and delete the document that never printed. then shut off your computer and then restart it so that document will no longer be in the queue.
anonymous
2007-04-14 16:10:08 UTC
Turn of your printer, preferably unplug it. Then restart you machine. Set printing paused. There is a button for purge all documents or similar, I have no machine to check against here. Try that. Do not forget to unpause the printer.
anonymous
2007-04-14 16:10:56 UTC
it happened to me

but it depends in what type of priter you have what i did i call the service and they helped me a lot

do the same

what i did was i opened the control panel and it as stucked i removethe crap and then works fine but check the owners manual
Jeffrey F
2007-04-14 16:11:29 UTC
Try this.

open a command prompt (start, run then type cmd)



once you have a window open, type:

net stop "print spooler"

then

net start "print spooler"



keep the quotes.



this will stop the service and release the file (yes, the print data is a file) that is queued for deletion.....the problem is that the print file has a lock on it and can't be deleted....stopping and starting the print spooler releases the lock and the file is deleted


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