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| 249244 | 2004-07-02 10:39:00 | I have noticed that in the past hour or so my computer has been major lagging - the reason? CPU usage is at 100% seems that spoolsv.exe is trying to use as much CPU power as possible. Anyone got any ideas why, and hopefully how to stop it? |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 249245 | 2004-07-02 10:44:00 | Have you been using or trying to use your printer? This is what spoolsv.exe is, it spools the print job. There is a nice way of ending the spoolsv.exe which I have read about (but can't remember - someone will know tho), but a quick and dirty way of doing this is to reboot your machine. :) | Jen C (20) | ||
| 249246 | 2004-07-02 10:51:00 | oh.... i thought it might have been some evil virus..... | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 249247 | 2004-07-02 10:58:00 | RESOLUTION WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system . Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly . Use Registry Editor at your own risk . Uninstalling the BitWare software is the best course of action, but is not available for all versions . If uninstalling is not available, you can delete all registry entries and drivers that refer to BitWare manually: Start Registry Editor (Regedt32 . exe) . Locate references to BitWare in the following keys in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-2 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Monitors HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Printers On the Edit menu, click Delete for each BitWare subtree . Quit Registry Editor . Delete all BitWare drivers from the %SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Drivers\W32x86 folder . Restart Windows . |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 249248 | 2004-07-02 11:02:00 | Were you using your printer? If not, I would do a full scan of your system with an updated AV in that case just to make sure. I also found that thread with the nice way of killing the spooler - see here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) for Babe Ruth's post. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 249249 | 2004-07-02 11:07:00 | > RESOLUTION > WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you > may cause serious problems that may require you to > reinstall your operating system . Microsoft cannot > guarantee that you can solve problems that result > from using Registry Editor incorrectly . Use Registry > Editor at your own risk . > Uninstalling the BitWare software is the best course > of action, but is not available for all versions . Baldy > You shouldn't advise someone to hack their registry without providing the full information to go with that post . That hack is only if you are running BitWare Software - Link for MS Knowledge Base Article ( . microsoft . com/default . aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257859" target="_blank">support . microsoft . com) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 249250 | 2004-07-02 11:44:00 | Click on it and then End Task. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 249251 | 2004-07-03 03:19:00 | well, i wasnt using my printer as far as i know, but at the time it started doing it (last night) i had told one of the other computers on my network to do a "network benchmark" with "fresh Diagnose". I suppose this had something to do with it, but restarting doesnt help and killing it in taskmanager doesnt either (it just comes back after a few minutes) i have tried going into services and killing it from there but i think it came back about half an hour later. |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 249252 | 2004-07-03 13:35:00 | Check there are no print jobs in the que, if there are cancel the top one which is probably hanging things up, sometimes it takes a while to go after you cancel it. Rob |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 249253 | 2004-07-04 03:20:00 | everything is fine after i emptied the windows/system32/spool/printers folder | agent_24 (4330) | ||
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