Carl's Blog » print spooler http://www.css-networks.com Carl's blog about stuff Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:44:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 When adding a printer / installing driver “The RPC server is unavailable”. http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/when-adding-a-printer-installing-driver-the-rpc-server-is-unavailable.html http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/when-adding-a-printer-installing-driver-the-rpc-server-is-unavailable.html#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:15:41 +0000 Carl Farrington http://www.css-networks.com/?p=247 This is due to the print spooler service not running, or dying during the install.

You may also find that the print spooler service frequently dies – “spoolsv.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”, or the Printers and Faxes folder frequently appears empty – i.e. all your printers are missing.

NetSupport Manager or NetSupport PC Duo version 8 on Windows XP SP2 will cause this to happen. Update NetSupport and all will be well.

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