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Sunday, June 7, 2009

How to Stop Printer from print job that is already in Print queue ?

Most of the people who bought new printer faces a problem on how to cancel print jobs or cancel print spooler when they accidentally click to print the data which they do not need or sometime some edit may be required but they come to know after clicking on the print button below are some of the tips on how to cancel the print job that are already in the print queue

Method 1:

*Start-->settings-->Control Panel
*Administrativetools-->click "Services"
*Scroll down you can find the Service called "Print Spooler"
*Now restart the "Print Spooler" Link
if this method doesnt work for you follow below method


Method 2:

Open the notepad and copy and paste below command

net stop spooler
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
net start spooler

Now save it as DeletePrintJobs.cmd in the desktop or anyother location and whenever you want to cancel the print operation just double click on the file now you can see the commands executing in command prompt and it exits after automatically deleting the print queues

Method 3:

There are some free tools and commercial tool which can do the trick, Print Job Assassin is one such commercial tool and DeletePendingPrintJobs is a tool from microsoft that does the job if you guys know any other sweet and smart way to do it let us know

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