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printer spooler service.

Posted:
Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:35 pm
by Tony_Scorpio
How do I get my spooler service turned back on? NOt familiar with this. I have a Dell Demision E510 . It was working fine now it says that my spooler service is turned off.

Posted:
Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:51 am
by liljim
Welcome to PcTechforums
Click Start>Run and type services.msc in the box, click ok. Scroll down until you see Print spooler. Right click on it, All Task>Start
that should get it going again

Posted:
Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:02 am
by Tony_Scorpio
When I did that I was given an error code 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start. What should I try now? I appreciate the help.

Posted:
Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:09 am
by liljim
give this a try, go back to start>run and type in (or copy and paste)
CMD /K SC CONFIG SPOOLER DEPEND= RPCSS
click ok
that should change the dependency and allow the spooler service to start. Let me know if it works.

Posted:
Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:03 am
by Tony_Scorpio
Someone on the the Dell community forum suggested to go to my systems startup and start lexbce. exe. the spooler service is supposed to be dependent on this. Either way it worked. thanks for all the suggestions.

Posted:
Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:45 pm
by icecube
That error comes from installing a Lexmark printer and then removing it. Dell computers are known to come with a Lexmark. If you have removed the printer and moved up to a real one you will get this error
The fix, go into the registry and
remove LEXBCES from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spooler\DependOnService so that only RPCSS remains. Stop & Disable LEXBCES service & restart your computer
Rember to export that key to the desktop before you edit it, in case you make a mistake