If you have ever canceled a print job within windows you probably had a time or two when it just froze, and it seemed like it was never going to cancel that print job. According to Ask Reddit this is because Windows is unable to to cancel the print job while the file created from printing is still in use. To fix this problem Ask Reddit gave the manual and quick batch file version that you can find below.
To manually fix the problem do these steps:
open task manager, stop spoolsv.exe, navigate to c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\, delete everything in this folder, open the run box, run spoolsv.exe again. print.
- From: Ask Reddit
Or if you are not that savvy you can create a new text document and save it as clearprint.bat with the following code below.
@echo off
echo Stopping print spooler.
echo.
net stop spooler
echo deleting stuff... where? I'm not sure. Just deleting stuff.
echo.
FOR %%A IN (%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*) DO DEL %%A
echo Starting print spooler.
echo.
net start spooler