RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

2010-12-17 Thread Carl Houseman 
Try this at the cmd prompt:  net start spooler

If that fixes it, the question to be answered is "why is the spooler service
stopping or crashing?"

Probably a driver that needs updating.  You didn't answer the question about
whether anything was in the event log, but a bad driver causing the service
to stop will probably cause an event.

Carl

-Original Message-
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

Whole section missing, along with printers and faxes. Should I just put in
the Win 7 disk and fix?

-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

More info requested.

Does the section just disappear, but the printers and faxes are still there?
Or the section is still there, but the printers and faxes are no longer
displayed? 
If the latter, are the printers still available from within applications?
Any other hardware missing?
Anything in the Windows Event Log?

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

I was hoping one of the Windows 7 fixes would take care of this. But a couple
of my Windows 7 machines have lost the Printers and Faxes selections when you
open Devices and Printers. A reboot used to fix it, but not lately. Has
anyone else run into this? I cannot find anything through Google. We have a
couple of dozen printers here, and we run a script to get them up and running
on all our workstations. I am hoping someone can point me in the right
direction to get this fixed...



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RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

2010-12-17 Thread Holstrom, Don 
Whole section missing, along with printers and faxes. Should I just put in the 
Win 7 disk and fix?

-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

More info requested.

Does the section just disappear, but the printers and faxes are still there? Or 
the section is still there, but the printers and faxes are no longer displayed? 
If the latter, are the printers still available from within applications?
Any other hardware missing?
Anything in the Windows Event Log?

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

I was hoping one of the Windows 7 fixes would take care of this. But a couple 
of my Windows 7 machines have lost the Printers and Faxes selections when you 
open Devices and Printers. A reboot used to fix it, but not lately. Has anyone 
else run into this? I cannot find anything through Google. We have a couple of 
dozen printers here, and we run a script to get them up and running on all our 
workstations. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to get 
this fixed...


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RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

2010-12-17 Thread Ken Schaefer 
More info requested.

Does the section just disappear, but the printers and faxes are still there? Or 
the section is still there, but the printers and faxes are no longer displayed? 
If the latter, are the printers still available from within applications?
Any other hardware missing?
Anything in the Windows Event Log?

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] 
Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

I was hoping one of the Windows 7 fixes would take care of this. But a couple 
of my Windows 7 machines have lost the Printers and Faxes selections when you 
open Devices and Printers. A reboot used to fix it, but not lately. Has anyone 
else run into this? I cannot find anything through Google. We have a couple of 
dozen printers here, and we run a script to get them up and running on all our 
workstations. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to get 
this fixed...


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~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

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Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss

2010-12-16 Thread Holstrom, Don 
I was hoping one of the Windows 7 fixes would take care of this. But a couple 
of my Windows 7 machines have lost the Printers and Faxes selections when you 
open Devices and Printers. A reboot used to fix it, but not lately. Has anyone 
else run into this? I cannot find anything through Google. We have a couple of 
dozen printers here, and we run a script to get them up and running on all our 
workstations. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to get 
this fixed...

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