Cancel a print in Windows ó delete a print queue, many times it can be a real headache and even more so if we have already pressed the cancel button and nothing happens. Well, this is a frequent problem, which we have all surely experienced on more than one occasion. However, the solution may be simpler than we imagine, for this we will see below different ways on how to do it without complicating our lives.
- Stalled Printer Repair: Is a free app for windows, available in English but its use is quite simple, it will be enough to execute it and then the program will automatically detect the stuck jobs and it will only be a matter of clicking on Purge Prints Jobs, so that everything is solved quickly.
– If the above did not give you the desired result, you can choose to do it manually; to do this, run the “Windows Task Manager” (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and end the process “Spoolsv.exe«, then go to the directory C: WINDOWSsystem32spoolPRINTERS and delete everything in that folder. Finally open the menu Home > Run… and writes Spoolsv.exe followed by pressing the Enter key.
– If you have knowledge of Batch programming or not, you can create a program yourself with the following code, if you don't know how, just copy and paste the following lines of code in the “Notepad”:
@ Echo off
echo Stopping the spoolsv process.
echo.
net stop spooler
echo Removing temporary documents from the print queue
echo.
del / Q / F / S “% systemroot% System32SpoolPrinters *. *
echo Starting the spoolsv process.
echo.
net start spooler
Now save it with the name you want, but very important with the extension . Beat (for example: PurgePrinter.bat). In case you have a brand printer Lexmark, you must add the following line to the end of the code:
sc config spooler depend = RPCSS
To save you effort on the above, at the end of the post you have a link to download the MS-DOS batch file, ready for when you need it.
Tell us, what method or program do you use? Would you recommend another alternative?
Link: Download Batch to cancel a print (1 KB – Zip)
(Via: Techtastic)