The print spooler is a Windows component responsible for making all the printers installed on your computer print properly. If you only have one printer, it makes sure that the pages print correctly; ...

When print jobs are sent to a printer, the documents are spooled into a buffer, allowing multiple jobs to be queued. If your office's printer isn't working properly, it could be due to an issue with ...

My print spooler service crashes almost every night. Each morning I have to restart it before the printers can be used. I've read about possibly using cleanspl.exe to cleanup the spooler and reinstall ...

It seems that there is a vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows called the PrintNightmare. Microsoft has acknowledged this issue, and they are looking for solutions. This is a security ...

The solution to every printing problem according to the Helpdesk is to restart the print server on the print spooler. I don't pretend to know very much about print servers, but this seems to be a ...

In May 2020, Microsoft patched CVE-2020-1048, a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service discovered by Peleg Hadar and Tomer Bar from SafeBreach Labs. A month later, the ...

Facepalm: Microsoft is once again advising its customers to disable Windows print spooler, after a new vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code on machines has emerged. While a ...

Microsoft is investigating a new vulnerability in the Windows print spooler service and is recommending that IT pros disable it, if possible, as an interim measure, although doing so eliminates the ...