No Printers Found? Windows can’t open Add Printer. The local print spooler service is not running.

by Keith Dsouza | Translate | Print
Thursday, 17th Sep 2009 | Share


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There are times when you want to print a webpage or document and see a message like the one below even though you have all the printers and drivers installed.

no_printer_found

Since the error says that there are no printers installed the most logical solution would be to check why it is giving you this error, so you head to the printers in control panel.

 missing_printers

Most of the times you will see that the printers are missing from the available devices and when you try to install a printer you will see an error like the one below.

local_printer_spooler_not_working

Case of the Missing Printers

As you can see from the error above the printers are missing due to the Print spooler service being disabled or stopped, you can restart your computer to get the printers back. But why waste time when you can do it without restarting the PC.

Here are the steps to get your missing printers back without having to restart the PC.

Step 1: Press Windows Key + R to open the run box and type in services.msc.

start_print_spooler_service

Step 2: The services window will open, in that find Print Spooler and start the service.

printers_magically_reappear

Once you have done that refresh or reopen the printer page from control panel and you will see that all your printers should reappear again.

While you are printing please try and save the environment use a add-in to print what you want or an excellent service that will allow you to save pages and inks by removing data and images you do not want to print. Happy Printing.



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  1. steph
    October 12th, 2009 at 3:35 pm #

    thank you so much for you excellent advice..solved the problem!!!!

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    Keith Dsouza Reply:

    @steph Glad that it helped you out :-)

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