Vista and printer spool problem?

Question

I can not print A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G from my new laptop which came with Vista. Most of the time at startup I get a message saying something about needing to restart the printer spool. If I try to print something, it won't recognize any printers and won't let me add any. So then I restart the printer spool, it will then show my printer (and network printers when I am at work) and I can succesfully print one job before I get the message again saying that the printer spool has stopped and needs to be restarted. And of course when this message pops up, once again it will not 'see' any printers or let me add one, print...anything. Help! I am on the verge of either throwing my computer out the window, going back to XP or throwing a hissy fit with some innocent person at the microsoft customer service number (wait-is there one?) Tell me anything I can do to fix it, or if there are certain programs that I may have installed that make this happen. Thanks a bunch!

Answer 1

Try getting the latest drivers for the printer, even if they are Beta Vista drivers, there might be a conflict with the drivers somewhere, or you can try reinstalling the latest XP drivers.