Print Spooler Errors on Disabled Print Spooler (windows 2000)
One of the things you do to fine tune the performance of a server is to turn off unnecessary services. This frees up resources for your primary application. Unless the server in question is a print server you should turn off the print spooler service. On a windows 2000 server this sometimes results in annoying "printer not found" type errors in your windows event viewer. To get rid of them, use the following steps:
- Start the print spooler service if it is not already running.
- Go to Start-Programs-settings-printers.
- Choose File-Server Properties from the menu.
- Click on the "advanced" tab and "de-select" all the checkboxes listed there.
3 Comments
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Those ugly red events have been bugging me for years. Just thought they were something I had to live with. Cheers, Mark. -
Actually, that doesn't seemed to have stopped the event log errors. Does it require a reboot, Mark?
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Looks like we're talking about different error events. Good tip anyway Mark and I agree the service shouldn't normally need to be running on a web server.
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