Print spooler consumes over 1GB of memory
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Mar 15, 20264112 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Suddenly, on a Windows Vista Business workstation I manage, the Windows print spooler service is consuming over 1GB of memory. I got the call this morning that the user could not print. I discovered all printers were missing from the Printers applet in Control Panel. I rebooted the machine, and at …
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I would think it is a bad print driver that has been loaded into the spool process. Try deleting the printers one at a time, restarting the spooler service and watching the memory usage. You may also want to investigate something like Process Monito…
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