Command line tip #9- Clear your printer spooler

For one reason or the other, a print job may get hung up and stop responding. One way to possibly clear this problem up is to use the command line to stop and restart the printer spooler. The services command “sc” can be used. In the command prompt, enter “sc stop spooler” followed by “sc start spooler” (omit the quotation marks).

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