Printers disappered

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Dave J

For some reson all my printers disappered out of my
printers window they are just not there anymore. It won't
let me add one i keep getting an error message that
says "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of
resources. The print subsystem is unavalible" i also read
an article from the knowledge base that told me to go to
administrative tools then services then printer spooling
then make sure that is running i did that it was off then
when i went to open the printer menu and i got this
message "The procedure entry point TraceMessage could not
be located in the dynamic Link Library ADVAPI32.dll"

Can some one help me with this i havent had any luck yet.
 
-----Original Message-----
For some reson all my printers disappered out of my
printers window they are just not there anymore. It won't
let me add one i keep getting an error message that
says "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of
resources. The print subsystem is unavalible" i also read
an article from the knowledge base that told me to go to
administrative tools then services then printer spooling
then make sure that is running i did that it was off then
when i went to open the printer menu and i got this
message "The procedure entry point TraceMessage could not
be located in the dynamic Link Library ADVAPI32.dll"

Can some one help me with this i havent had any luck yet.

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I am having the same issue with a client of mine.
Although I get a different secondary error message, but
other than that the same issue applies. In addition,
when I try to restart the spooler service, I get the
following error:

Error 1068 - Dependancy Services of group failed to start.

I discovered that the dependent service is PMObserv.
When I attempt to start this service I get this error
message:

Error 2: the system cannont find the file specified.

The file named in the service's properties is
C:\winnt\system32\PMObserv.exe.

Have you resolved the issue yet, or has anyone else found
a resolution?
 
Hello friend,

I had the same problem with my W2K server. Probably the PMObserv.exe is
corrupt or was lost. Put another copy of this file in your \system32
folder(PS: I get this file from w2k professional and put in w2k server
and it works!). After than, restart these services. Sorry for my bad
english...

Regards!

Leoonelson (from Brazil)
 
Hi,

You need to restart spooler service, you can get some info in system events
regarding this problem.
 
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