tim's journal

Hey, thanks for the info. Out of the hundreds of sites on the web discussing the topic, I'd never think to find the solution on a blog of all places. I'd donate, but I'm broke myself. Thanks, once again.

Hey!

I've just installed the WinXP Pro and have the same problem as yours. Tried your method but don't find the 2 files that you found. And after reboot, the problem occurs again....

Seemed to work great for me.

Thanks!

Man, you saved me. I was almost getting crazy! Very Thanks!

U R THE BEST

I just thought I'd say thanks. I've been looking all over the web for a week, spoke to tons of developers, and other geeks like myself, and thenn found the simplest solution on your site.

Thank you SO much!! This has been driving me up the wall, and I'm so thankful to have it banished.

I couldn't find those file.I'm running window XP service Pack2

thanks a lot from Spain !

Thank You again and again, This was a gret help, even if they come back again, I can give my client a batch file to clear these files

Thanks a lot from Mexcio Tim

Hi,

In my network of w2k PC's that I support I've discovered a problem with the Konica Minolta laser printer a client is networking. This hasn't happened as a result of XP SP-2 but I suspect it is related to one of the many Windows Updates recently offered. Perhaps it is the BITS update, perhaps it is the .Net update ...dunno?:S? In any case with Task Manager open to the Processes Tab and the list sorted by CPU load, I highlight the spoolsv.exe thread to see if it is causing a hanging condition. It has over the last serveral days. Even after the printer has finished printer the document it continues to throttle up and down preoccupying the CPU. I found this curious so I found your advice and am conducting the following test (I was curious what all those *.spl and *.shd were there for in any case since I had many more that the 00020.* files you suggested deleting). Well I effectively deleted them all by moving them to a temporary folder and reran a print job. So far it appears to have alleviated the hanging condition. I'll continue to watch this and report my finding later.

Cheers,
Ugly Horse Face Candidate who thugs rip signs from three year-olds hands

Thanks Mexcio Tim.
Just now I help my roommate solve the same problem according to what you taught.It really
works.This is my first time to get rid of virus.
I am rather excited.

OK I was chasing the wrong tail. The problem was specific to the driver and after using the latest version the problems are resolved.

Hi HO Silver Away,
Dark Horse Faced Stranger

Thanks a lot Man! from Philippines

spoolsv.exe hogging 99% of cpu - the fix

I have this problem also but it keeps recurring everytime I print. When I try your steps to solve this it doesnt work I get access denied errors and things like that when trying to delete the files and stop the print spooler. I am logged on as administrator though. When I print I have to reboot the computer b4 it actually prints. This is very annoying, is there any long term solutions instead of just the quick fix. I have downloaded the latest drivers for my Dell Photo Printer 720 and it made no difference

Thanks,
Brian

To cope with a hung spoolde print job you can force the spool service to stop under the Computer Management -> Services interface. Just find the print spooler service and stop it.

As a long term fix, first I'd demand support from Dell. Those guys are highly stoked with profits and they can certainly support the Dell branded hardware they are hawking. Don't be surprised that it is actually made by Lexmark, Epson, or ...etc. Another workaround is to simply configure the printer to print directly and not spool at all. I assume that this would bypass the spooler service altogether and therebye avoid the issue. Good Luck

The Narcisist Talking Head for office

you are my savior!!!

Hey i deleted spoolsv.exe from my windows folder trying to stop it, where can i download it again?

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOM from Switzerland

:-)

Great...Thank you very much!!

Thanks alot. I spent alot of time doing system scans and looking for Trojan horses. It turns out it was neither. Thanks so much!

simple, quick and delivers

Thanks a lot!!! I've spent more hours that I would like to admit doing scans and reading google results with no fix! I stumbled on yours and it worked great! Now I can get back to work!! Thanks again.

Kirby from Vancouver

Thank's. Nice trick. Portugal

Dude (or Dudette) Where's you're paypal button. We were going crazy with this and tried your fix. Only found 1 file but removed it and restarted. So far, so good.

Great trick, my roomie lost a few nerves because of this, he can finally sleep again ^^

We have a WinXP Pro SP2 machine that has about 500,000 .shd and .spl files on it taking about 8GB of space. The machine came to a crawl and we are deleting them now.
Any idea why they do not go away if the print job is aborted?

Thanks very much for the info. Your advice did what many system admins and tech support guys could not! Hope others with problems like mine find this page quickly. In my case, it was hard to find it, but easy to fix once I knew what to do.

My same problem with the spoolsv taking the cpu to the next level, but my problems are with a HP LaserJet 6L and when I installed the updated HP drivers is when i ran into problems my 2 other computers are printing fine i'm using a Debian Linux Print Server. And no luck with the "fix"

tried to delet the files from spool-printers but there are no files!anyone knows what to do next?also tried to unistall all printers but no improvement.

HI,
I've tried doing what you have told to this post...but still no good for me..I've stopped the Print spooler to the Services.msc console and it works fine.But I can't use the printer to print because I have the file disable. I tried to delete at the Spool/printers but there are no files to delete...

are there anyway I can fix my problem!!

thanks alot..

rommell @philippines

Hi,
Thanks for the solution, it worked like a champ for me.

Regards,
George.

Yep, two weeks and lots of torn out hair later we found your fix - worked a treat.
Cheers, Tim - New Zealand

Worked like a charm. Thanks

empting spool folder fix it for me there was 7000 thousand file in the folder ,

Great Thanks For You Man.... Same as Others here what they say....I love your Personality and Thank You ...Odin Cure You Underground Solutioner

Thanks m8, I was hitting ctr+alt+del fifty times a day to end the bloody process, wonder if accidently hitting print screen or something did it. I did get a virus one day Worm Agobot spools something-or-other which PC-Cillin couldn't do anything to so it must've been that. I found three files a 24 kb shockwave object 00005, and 2 similar files 00005.SHD and 00007.SHD Haven't seen if it is a permanent fix yet but I trust it is. Funniest thing is I don't even have a printer plugged in LOL.

Hej! To jest niesamowite. Komp. dziala jak nowy! Wielkie dzieki za rade i pozdrawiam!

Worked great left the comp on all day, checked the processes and CPU was at a cool 2%. Thanks dude.

DAMN DUDE!! THANKS A BUNCH!! THIS SAVED ME!! my dad's computer was going crazy. First off I spent 8 hours cleaning the spyware because the computer was soooo SLOW! :(
If I located this first the cleanup would of went much quicker!! BUT I AM SOO HAPPY THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!! SAVED ME FROM REFORMAT!

I have followed your advice to solve the problem of the spooler blocking CPU. It seems to have worked just fine. Thank you so much.

KR

Thank you very much!

The CPU is now back on "idle"-power, that's a great feeling ;-)

lg
Stefan

thanks for ur post it helped allot :-)

Thanks I <3 you.

your suggestion worked perfectly, thanks

I'm happy I'd searched in google first, I was just about to format my hard drive and reload every thing. You saved me a long time to re-install all my stuff.

Thank you and keep posting helpful info.
CG

BEEN TRYING TO FIX THIS ALL DAY!!!! YOU'RE AWESOME!!!! THANKS!

AUSTEN

EXELENT thanks dud ur a god.

XP Pro, new clean install, tried to put in an OLD cd containing original HP Laserjet 6P. Gave a funky load, indicating some problems. It di allow a printer to appear and it worked but the machine crawled after that. Found the 2 files, removed them, removed the printers, restarted and now spooldv runs at 1-2% when not using a program. THANKS!!! Pass it on!

Thanks a lot, I was thinking it was a virus but my antivirus could not handle that problem and I now see why.

I spent hours and hours researching this, running every spyware, adware and virus scanner I could find, and my PC came up clean. Then read all the dumb advice out there. Nothing worked and my resources were pegged at 100%, making the PC practically unusable. Either I had to kill the print spool (then couldn't print) or run with 100% of my resources tied up. PC was crawling. Very Frustrating. Then I read your post and, sure enough, cleaning out the files in the windows\system32\spool\printers folder WORKED IMMEDIATELY. My resources are now normal AND I can print. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.

Thanks a million! Your solution worked perfectly. I was pulling my hair out (OK, what's left of it) trying to figure this out. Thanks again!

And I thought I was badly off with spoolsv.exe socking in only 1 of the 2 logical (Pentium HT) processors on this Tosh P30. So only 50 percent CPU usage; but even that was heating up the desk, and you couldn't hear yourself think for the fans. So I was in 'print or think' mode for several days here, toggling the Print Spooler service on and off. Pretty annoying.
Your tip NAILED it. I know what I did - configured the Tosh to let my wife's laptop share the Epson C42Plus over the home network. After a couple of false starts, we got it. I had just 2 files - 1 SHD, 1 SPL - probably left over from the bad try. (That's a SPooL file, BTW, tho reported as a Shockwave object).
Some say this is an Epson driver and WinXP SP2 interaction - maybe true, maybe we need a new driver or two. But not all here report using Epson printers.
But if it happens again - I know what to do. Thanks a bunch!

Came across this post about spooler after much searching for a solution. I have a new computer only one month old, xp service pack 2 and am a novice user. Norton 2005 installed and keep getting Microsoft printer spooler service messages poping up at bottom right of my monitor. Have uninstalled 2 printers,looked for Trojans and restored pc to factory settings. Tried another printer and still getting these Norton messages. Can anyone explain in easy terms how I could solve this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

I’ve been struggling with this reoccurring problem for a while on a network of W2K pcs.. I created a batch file that dumps all the files.

Clearprint.bat
cd C:\WINNT\system32\spool\PRINTERS
del *.* /Q

I have been working on this problem for almost two months now. I have been in tears and had to drop an online course for lack of ability to do anything on my computer, including print the syllabus. I live in Itlay and there is no one here to help so I have been banging my head. You have no idea how indebted I am to you if this works. Thanks!!!!

Hey, thanks for the post. My windows box has been hosed for quite some time now! Also, my company has a pretty cool way for you to make money off your blog--check us out at http://adrelief.blogspot.com !

Thanks,
Diondre Lewis

Thanks for the tip, worked like a charm. Could not figure out what was clogging the memory - thought it was my laptop and was just considering sending it back, when low and behold, I came across your link and now I am in the clear!

Thanks
Dan McClure

hi really thanku for your tip it worked for me and i am really happy

thank u very much

with love
prabagar

Well, I too have been looking for over 1 week for info and a solution to this spoolsv.exe chewing up CPU. I had only just installed XP and all periferal software. I suspected the print driver and I went through the routine of de-installing all the print software (and more...) and the problem was still there!!!! Tried your findings and it worked a charm !!!!!

Thanks a Mil
Jonathan

Thanks, you saved my system!

It works great. Thank you very much.

Saviour! I can now get on with my dissertation without the cpu hanging! woooOOOO

thank you, thank you, thank you

I had this same problem, unfortunately the fix above did not work ... After a little monkeying around, I removed the KB887742 Microsoft Update, and the problem dissapeared!

There should be nothing in this folder if you are not printing anything. I had 54 items in this folder, all random print jobs.

Deleted them and the problem has gone.

Thanks

Thanks! It worked! This was driving me crazy, I thought I had a virus.

I bow to thee oh wise one. Thou hast saved me! Fix worked perfectly. You ROCK!!! :)

YES! it worked! and the print files had today's date .. proof.. thanks!

Wow! It worked! One week trying many solutions posted in several forums and web pages ........... and nothing!

tx
JG

Thank you so much for that spooler how to. It worked! I was about to destroy my computer since it was going so slow, but you have saved its life. Thank you again.

Tim

ur a godsend

it worked - thanks

ray

Thank's Tim.
It's Worked so well i have named my 3rd son after you.

~BirtY~

Worked Perfectly, thanks for the tip.

Great stuff! Thanks it seems to work here.

Its worked, thanks a lot

This worked, thanks a ton.

I couuld'nt install the printer. Below is the error message.I am using window 2000

Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. the print subsystem is unavailable.

Brilliant! Thank you.

Thank you for this information Tim. I spent around four hours doing the printer driver re-install, virus programs, registry edits, reboot dance, you name it, until I lucked onto this page. Deleting the contents of PRINTERS fixed the problem immediately.

If spoolsv.exe loaded Taskmanager wordpad notresponding pls give me a solutions

thankingyou
sridhar

Many thanks for your clear advice. Works ok till now for me. Thanks again.

I've been stuck on this one for weeks and it's really good to finally find the solution. Geez! I feel like giving someone some free web space. Thanks! -Russ Tanner .COM

I removed 674 files from that folder.

Thanks for the help.
Paul

you've saved my sanity.
i've spent all day on this problem. talked to three different tech-support people (in name only). and gone to numerous websites. all leading me to do EVERYTHING BUT THIS!!!
marry me! if you're a man, i'm willing to have a sex change operation.

Yo tim, thanks alot man...never thought i would find the solution to this on a blog but thanks. i gave up printing on my PC and settled to a slow computer, now I am nack baby. thanks again

It worked! Thanks a bunch. You saved my day! I found your solution with a Google search after restarting my computer multiple times and panicking because I had several printing deadlines to meet.

Tim,
You Da Man! I tried everything from Spy Ware blockers, multiple virus scans, and periodically killing the process. I'll pass on the advice.

I ran microsoft antivirus and found spyware on my comp and that solved my problem.

I work in a call center and provide system support to our customers. One of them called in with a similar problem. I googled the issue and found this article. Implimented the fix and it worked like a charm. Now we're golden in the eyes of the customers.

Thanks.

DZ

I've had this problem before and thought I solved it a week ago. It reared its ugly head again this morning and I followed your advice. So far so good. Thanks for the solution.

lik everyone else i have 20 hours into a clients pc trying to fix this - every scan tool known to man all with no success .your trick did it tim

rock on

hi,
please visit the Microsoft official site to get rid of this problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216221

Regards
Muzammal

Many thanks. It worked!

Thanks!

Muchas gracias por el aporte realmente esto si soluciona el problema. del spoolsv.exe

Andrés desde Costa Rica.

Just wanted to say thanks, this has been driving me nuts and now it's fixed, yey!

WOW! Better than Microsoft Knowledge! Works also in Czech version WinXp SP2. Thanks!

Thanks very much. In my case the spoolsv.exe was crashing. I was thinking it was corrupt and I would have to reload windows. Luckily I stumbled across this article and deleted some files from the spool directory. Now everything is fine!

Many thanks - your procedure fixed the problem for me too!

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY ThE PROBLEM after deleting files in /spool/printer/* it's because you have like me printers pre-install from network place unreacheable on Win2K .
Remove all you printer if they are not reacheable from an another network (no ntfs/novell rigth or no ping)

From France

Thanks a lot for this page ToRque **/\** :-))

Problem caused by print jobs in ms office document image writer, causing spooler to run at 100%, cancelled jobs, tested ok.

Thanks a lot !! you solved my problem!!

Thanks "magic torke" u have a friend 4ever.

Thanks - you saved my sanity!!!!

Searched Google for spoolsv.exe and saw "tim's journal: spoolsv.exe hogging 99% of cpu - the fix" listed in third place. It should be listed at the top of the list! Solved my problem in 30 seconds. Excellent Journal entry!

Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

Regards,
Todd

Great blog. Excellent advice.
Kind regards
Bill

Gracias.... thx... gracias...Thx.... From Chile

You saved my life thank u thank u and thank u

Thanx for your information. It helped a lot.
A shame that I was so stupid to print your page (and wasted another tree).

Thanks! Solved our issue.

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THANK YOU!!!!

Hello Tim,

Its two and a half years since you posted this fix and still very useful.
My pc was running slow and I was thinking to reformat my harddrive and re-install windows which is a time consuming task, but this solve the problem for me in less than a minute.
Thank you! Thank you!

Robert.

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Good job!

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Sure glad I found your site. I followed the steps described in your jornal and in 10 minutes my cpu was down to 1 precent many merci

Sure glad I found your site. I followed the steps described in your journal and in 10 minutes my cpu was down to 1 precent many merci................roy

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It worked .. Thank's a lot. ^^

Good job!

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Good job!

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Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...

Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Madonna says she may adopt another child from abroad following her proposed adoption of a Malawian boy...

Veteran game show host Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting The Price is Right after 35 years...

Veteran game show host Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting The Price is Right after 35 years...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...

TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...

The Rolling Stones cancel a gig in Hawaii and postpone other tour dates as Mick Jagger suffers throat troubles...

TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...

The Rolling Stones postpone a show in the US to allow singer Sir Mick Jagger time to rest his voice...

TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...

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Pop trio Atomic Kitten will reform to play a concert in support of jailed Liverpool football fan Michael Shields...

The Rolling Stones cancel a gig in Hawaii and postpone other tour dates as Mick Jagger suffers throat troubles...

A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...

A musical about the witches from The Wizard of Oz breaks West End box office records, its producers say...

Microsoft and Peter Jackson postpone the making of a film based on the Halo video game after backers pull out...

TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...

TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are leading the way at this years MTV Europe music awards with four nominations...

Classical singer Russell Watson postpones his forthcoming UK tour after undergoing brain surgery...

Classical singer Russell Watson postpones his forthcoming UK tour after undergoing brain surgery...

The Rolling Stones cancel a gig in Hawaii and postpone other tour dates as Mick Jagger suffers throat troubles...

Alec Baldwin asks for his voice to be removed from an "unfair" documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger...