Print spooler not starting - Error 2

All my printers have gone and when I try to add a printer I get this error
"Operation could not be completed"
I checked the Printer Spooler service and it is not running.
When I try to start it I get this message:
could not start the print spooler service on local computer error 2 etc...

I looked around on internet and didn't find anything relevant on this error.

http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm

Which make(s) and model printer(s) are you using?
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"Yaacov Klapisch" <yaacov@rampal.com> wrote in message
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> All my printers have gone and when I try to add a printer I get this error
> "Operation could not be completed"
> I checked the Printer Spooler service and it is not running.
> When I try to start it I get this message:
> could not start the print spooler service on local computer error 2 etc...
>
> I looked around on internet and didn't find anything relevant on this
> error.
>

Thanks for the answer but you didn't read the question.
I tried already to restart the service but then I got the Error 2
It is something more serious.
We have many printers:
HP MFP's
Kyocera
Gestetner
Xerox
All of them on the network. No local printer.
There is also 2 different virtual priters: FaxMaker and PDF maker


"Cari (MS-MVP)" <newsgroups@coribright.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm
>
> Which make(s) and model printer(s) are you using?
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> Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "Yaacov Klapisch" <yaacov@rampal.com> wrote in message
> news:O9mdkRVxIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> All my printers have gone and when I try to add a printer I get this
>> error "Operation could not be completed"
>> I checked the Printer Spooler service and it is not running.
>> When I try to start it I get this message:
>> could not start the print spooler service on local computer error 2
>> etc...
>>
>> I looked around on internet and didn't find anything relevant on this
>> error.
>>
>

On 4 Jun, 08:21, "Yaacov Klapisch" <yaa...@rampal.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the answer but you didn't read the question.
> I tried already to restart the service but then I got the Error 2
> It is something more serious.
> We have many printers:
> HP MFP's
> Kyocera
> Gestetner
> Xerox
> All of them on the network. No local printer.
> There is also 2 different virtual priters: FaxMaker and PDF maker
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" <newsgro...@coribright.com> wrote in message
>
> news:9E510F87-CA66-4095-8CAE-790AC976A455@microsoft.com...
>
>
>
> >http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm
>
> > Which make(s) and model printer(s) are you using?
> > --
> > Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> >www.coribright.com/windows
>
> > "Yaacov Klapisch" <yaa...@rampal.com> wrote in message
> >news:O9mdkRVxIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> All my printers have gone and when I try to add a printer I get this
> >> error "Operation could not be completed"
> >> I checked the Printer Spooler service and it is not running.
> >> When I try to start it I get this message:
> >> could not start the print spooler service on local computer error 2
> >> etc...
>
> >> I looked around on internet and didn't find anything relevant on this
> >> error.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Read my post today about uninstalling printer(s) when the spooler
isn't working.

Also here

http://forums.techarena.in/showpost....48&postcount=5

Please give me the answer why printer spooler service is not working.
Whenever i say start it denies and shows that error 1075. Please reply
me as soon as possible


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I suppose you had/ have a Lexmark or Dell printer

E:\>winerror 1075
1075 ERROR_SERVICE_DEPENDENCY_DELETED <--> No NTSTATUS matched

here's a Microsoft knowledge base article on this

Error message when you try to start the Print Spooler service on a Windows
XP-based computer: "Error 1075"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915168/en-us



Bruce has some suggestion's as well. Go down to the part on Lexmark
printers.

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

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> Whenever i say start it denies and shows that error 1075. Please reply
> me as soon as possible
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Hi Yaacov,
The print spooler is not working because it is not able to find spoolsv.exe
file in system32 folder.
You can try the following steps:
Right click on start --- Left click on explore ---- Go to i386 folder from C
drive --- search for the file spoolsv --- Copy the file spoolsv and paste in
C:\windows\system32.
Restart the print spooler and it should work fine.