Microsoft has quietly but decisively closed one of the more embarrassing security gaps in everyday office life: printing confidential documents and walking away. The company's Universal Print service now offers a fully supported Pull print capability — marketed as Universal Print anywhere —...
Below is a detailed, in-depth guide to resolving print spooler issues in Windows 11. The article combines expert insights with practical, step-by-step troubleshooting methods, catering to Windows 11 PCs, laptops, and Microsoft Surface devices.
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On a Windows 10 Pro system, a printer is added that is connected to a Windows 2012 R2 server.
Both Windows system are member of the same Domain.
When, on the Windows 10 Pro system, the Service "(Print) Spooler" is Running, +/- every 30 sec a successfull
logon and logoff is performed from the...
Can ya'll help me narrow down what could be the issue here please? The wife's work laptop is a Samsung Samsung ATIV Book 4 here are the specs but with Windows 10 on it. Link Removed
Issues
1. Wi-Fi keeps disconnecting. It will show that it's connected to the router but it will also show "no...
I have been using my Brother HL-2170W printer for quite sometime now with a setup over USB. Everything was working fine. I recently tried to update my Brother HL-2170W to allow access over the network. I discovered that there are 2 options either wireless or ethernet but not both. I ran the...
When I try to print anything, my laptop says that the printer is offline when it isn't. When I try to "find printers" I get the error message: "The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable." This is a new Windows 7 Dell Inspiron. The CD that came with the HP Officejet J6450 did...
I'm new so forgive me if I'm doing this wrong. I just upgraded to windows 7. I can't print. I've downloaded drivers, I've tried two different printers. It printed the test page when I first set things up, but now nothing. It also takes forever to cancel/delete a print job when I click on cancel...
Ok, so I used the W7 Bata, RC and now I've installed W7 Ultimate. In the previous two versions, I was able to install and run my local and networked printers.
I've now installed W7 Ult and my printers install without any issues, they just don't print. I don't get an error. The print job...
Howdy folks. Here's the skinny.
A friend of mine recently bought two new things within about a month of eachother; first was the aformentioned HP Photosmart C6100 printer with built in WiFi, and not long after that, a shiny new laptop with Vista Home Premium on.
I had his wireless network...