How to Restart the Print Spooler Service?
Sometimes we face difficulty in sending a job to printer, the problem may be the Print Spooler service. We can restart the Print Spooler by following steps given below if Print Spooler service stops working :
- Open the Windows Task Manager.
- Click the service tab in the task manager window.
- Click the description column header to sort the list of services by description.
- Scroll down and find the print spooler service in the description column. The service is named Spooler in the name column.
- Right-click the print spooler service and select restart in the pop-up menu.
- We can again start the printing job in printer, after print spooler service is restarted.
What is a Print Spooler?
The print spooler is a small program/software that manages the order of documents to proceed to the print queue. It manages all print jobs that are submitted to the computer printer. In this article we are going to learn what is Print spooler, How does Print Spooler work, the Need of a Print Spooler, some common problems related to Print Spooler, Error handling in Print Spooler, and how to restart the Print Spooler if we are facing issues.