I've searched around the internet trying to fix this issue. I have a Lexmark x6170 All In One printer hooked up to the USB port and Win XP Pro. No printer shows up in control panels and when I try to add a printer I get a Message Operation could not be completed. Print Spooler not running. I have gone into msconfig and the print spooler is stopped and I see no way to restart it. I'm using Open Office instead of MS Word or works, I don't know if that could have caused a problem? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, restoring the system to a previous date and so on. Nothing works.
Am I going to have to re install windoze? I hope not
Open Control Panel, Admin Tools, Services. Scroll down till you find Print Spooler. Check to make sure it is set for Automatic, if it is stopped, you can start it here.
The Remote Procedure Call process is listed as required and is not running or it's stopped but I could not see any way to restart it or to make it run. I read somewhere that the print spooler file may be corrupted and needs to be deleted and restored from the installation disk? I'm not sure I understand how to do that.
Thought I would top this to see if anyone else wanted to take a stab at this problem.
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