Local Print Spooler Issue 1

[Eviltwin]

Greetings--
I am running a very small win2k network. I have an issue with a workstation not being able to "Start The Print Spooler on Local Computer" followed by "Error 1075. The dependency Service does not exist or has been marked for deletion."

I recently had some problems with this machines registry and blue screens of death. I concvinced the machine to boot up after adjusting obvious problems in the registry. Then Ran Suite6 to clean up the registry some more. The machine appeared to be working perfectly until I tried to print.

Thanks in advance

 

[markdmac]

Id first to a search on the net for RegClean4.1 and try using that to fix the registry.

Next I would reapply the latest SP.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Eviltwin]

Hi Mark--
Thanks for the info. I ran Regclean4 and reapplied SP4. Nothing...When I try to add a printer I recieve this message: "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print subsystem is unavailable".

I have followed suggestions from the microsoft website on how to resolve this issue and nothing has worked. It's really strange.:-(
Thanks
Kevin

 

[markdmac]

Can you manually start the spooler service?

net start spooler



I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Eviltwin]

Hi Mark--
Nope...I've tried that until my head bled. One error message tells me the spooler is dependant on Lexbces which I happen to know is the dreaded Lexmark driver (^*&$% grr. I had two Lexmark printers a couple of years ago that gave me nothing but trouble. I got rid of those but was never succesfull in getting rid of all the trash Lexmark left behind after the uninstall.

I just finished scanning the registry for LexBces and there are about a dozen references. I tried to delete them and was flatly refused by the system--Geezz

Thanks

 

[markdmac]

OK, so I would verify registry permissions on those keys first. Use REGEDT32 instead of Regedit.

Then see if you can delet ethe keys. You may need to see if you can find something launching them at system startup and try to remove it from starting to prevent the files from being locked.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Eviltwin]

You are the man!!!!

REGEDT32 allowed me to remove the offending keys from the registry. I rebooted the machine and the network printers showed up exactly as they are supposed to.

Lexmark is SLIME. Two years later they come back to haunt me.

I am guessing that when I installed a new spyware/virusscanner that it removed one of lemark's greasy files and caused the spooler to fail. Of course you can bet that lexmark still had thier service loaded into the spooler key.

Anyway thank you very much for your help!
Kevin

 

[markdmac]

Glad to be of service EvilTwin.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[Seaspray0]

For print spooler issues, you will also find a utility called cleanspl.exe on the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. It's also available for download from microsoft. I've heard it has good success cleaning the lexmark stuff. It WILL remove everything from your print spooler service so you will have to reinstall all the printers again. I used it on a PC that had the print spooler using 99% CPU resources and it cured the problem.

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