does any one know how to get a print spooler working on this computer of mine?

Question

for computer illiterate..lol

i have tried to start it and that doesnt work...any othersugestions??

Answer 1

If you go to Printers and Faxes and right click your printer, click on Properties on the menu. On the Ports tab, click on Enable printer spooling.

EDIT: You could also look at the individual program to see if there's a background printing option somewhere. In Word, for example, click on Tools-Options, then the Print tab, and look for the Background printing check box.

Print spooling (the first explanation) will allow many different programs to send print jobs to a print device - this could include many different programs from different users in a networking setting. But the background printing option is more for single users and their applications, so that they don't have to wait for Word or Excel to send their information to a print device - the user can immediately continue working while the print job is being transmitted.

Now, depending on the size of the job or how fast your printer is (or even if you're not networked or only have a few people sharing a printer), you may not even see all of this in action. Printing a two-page document won't take too long and you won't see any difference, but if you're printing a 55-page document, you may see Word count the numbers up near the bottom of your screen, but at the same time you can still work on your document or do something else while that's going on (you just can't exit Word until the countdown is done though).

Answer 2

check the control panel