Spooler SubSystem App error - Help!

[jbob]

Spooler SubSystem App error - Help!

I am really hoping someone can help with this because I spent hours and can't figure this out.

HISTORY

1 Had an HP DeskJet and Adobe Pro 6.0 installed - both worked fine. Used Adobe Pro to make PDFs which I believe uses print spooler to do so

2. Then made the HUGE mistake of installing an old (circa 2003??) Dell A920 all-in-one printer/scanner/copier

3. After Dell installed, it seemed to take over the system:

a) Adobe Pro would no longer make PDFs/print, HP DeskJet was "missing/could not find printer"

B) Tried to uninstall and reinstall Adobe and HP DeskJet using add/remove programs - it would not let me - said Error 1920 Service Print Spooler (Spooler) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services. This is baloney as I AM the admin for the computer

4. Finally found a patch/app on the Dell site that (supposedly) uninstalled (fully?) the Dell A920.

BUT NOW:

5. I am still unable to print/make PDFs

6. When computer starts I am getting two pop up errors (a) Data Execution Prevention - To help protect your system Windows has closed this program Spooler SubSystem App, followed by (B) "Spooler SubSystem App has encountered an error and needs to close....."

7. I have tried bunch of things to fix #s 5 and 6, including checking services.msc to ensure spoolsvc.exe set to auto (it is), adding Spooler as exception in DEP.

8. Also, when I go into services.msc and look at status of spoolsv.exe it shows "Auto" but always says it is stopped. When I manually start it, I later get error pop ups when trying to open MS Office docs "Microsoft Visual Basic Compile Error in hidden module...."

9. I am at a loss - I see MSFT has an article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324757 that MAY be applic/be a fix but the process they outline is ridiculously complex.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? This is driving me nuts and I can't print or make PDFs, which I do dozens of times a day.!!!!

My system runs XP SP2.

Thanks!!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Welcome to the Windows Forum.

I think the easiest would be to just make a System Restore to a time before the whole problem started.

[Chas]

You may want to look at this article:

http://www.chrisshennan.com/2009/03/29/the...-running-vista/

I was having trouble with the spooler for awhile and got it running without all this but it may be worth looking at. I tried the #10 thru #13 and shut myself off from any printing..! Had to go to Recycle Bin and restore everything so I don't recommend those. I'm running XP Home but the article says it works on xp too.

Chas.