We are having the same reoccurring problem at our company with the print spooler on Windows Server 2012, namely that it's consuming a constant 50% CPU power and we cannot print, accessing the list of printers causes explorer to hang. Things we googled and tried already:
- Restarting the spooler
- Deleting the contents of C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\printers
- Deleting old jobs from C:\Windows\System32\spool\SERVERS[servername]
- Removing printers from the account
- Removing printer drivers
- Restarting the server
- Installing latest OS updates
The system is a Windows Server 2012 (non R2). The printers were installed from the account that is using the printers programatically from the web application. The drivers are fetched from our main printer servers that host all printers (and they seem to work fine)
We thought of bad drivers causing this problem but as I wrote we already uninstalled them (althought files remain in C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers).
What are we missing here?
