Deleting Print Jobs

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Jeff Stanton

Whenever I try to cancel or delete a print job from the printer console in
Control Panel, it either takes forever or, as now, it never cancels. This
has been a problem with every version of Windows I have used. I'm currently
using XP Pro. Does anyone have a suggestion for doing this?

Jeff Stanton
 
To delete print jobs do the following:

1. Stop the Spooler service.
2. Delete pending print jobs from the
%systemroot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS folder
3. Restart the Spooler service.

This little batch file which has often been Posted by Pegasus (MVP) will
delete all print jobs:

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@echo off
net stop "print spooler"
ping localhost -n 4 > nul
del /q "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*"
net start "print spooler"
ping localhost -n 5 > nul

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John
 
Hi I have had the same problem where I try to cancel print jobs in the queue
and they don't cancel. I have found that if I save everything close
everything and do a restart the print queue gets cleared. Sometimes the
printer prints what was in the queue when the restart is complete. Let me
know if this works for you. I am fairly sure it will.
Best Regards,
Kaja
 
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