Print Spooler in NT 2003 shutting down on its own 1

[tbpcpa]

I am currently running NT 2003 Server and everything up until MOnday appeared to be stable. Beginning Monday for no apparant reason, no new software or hardware added, the print spooler has begun to automatically shut down. You an turn in on and watch it with in 2-3 minutes automatically STOP.

I have run spyware and virus search to no avail.

Anyone else ever run into this. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

 

[tbpcpa]

I think i found it for anyone else who might ever run into this... somehow a FLASH file was in the print spool directory.. not sure how... but i'm guessing everytime the spooler attempted toi print it, it freaked and shut down the spooler.. everything seems ok now.

 

[HeyITGuy]

WOW! Thank you so much for posting the follow up. I was having the same exact problem, did a Google search and BAM... here I am. I never would have guessed that was what the problem was. I don't know how you did it, but I'm sure glad you did. You get the gold star for that one!