Hi All,

Have experienced a problem with Windows for a number of years now and I guess it's my fault else MS would have fixed it...but I can't work it out.

If I send a job to a local or network printer it goes into the printer queue...great.
But if I decided that I've got it wrong I open the printer queue and right click on the printer job and select "Cancel".
The printer job status goes Cancelling and the job just sits there until I reboot.
Meanwhile I can't print another thing as this cancelling job always stays at the top of the list.

Do I need to restart the sppoler or something through the comand prompt?

Aas I said...Can't work out what I'm doing wrong but thought that MS would have sorted it before now.

Cheers
WIO

Hi,

Did you try cancelling a number of times repeatedly? This tends to work with the most stubborn documents in the print queue.

Also;
From the web

I've done it a few times but not loads as it seemed to be getting me nowhere...I shall persist next time and hope it eventually goes.

Thanks,
WIO

Not sure if this will be any help or not......... How to cancel printing or to delete a print job that is stuck in the print queue in Windows XP

Hey LoneWolf...that's the answer!

Option D is exactly what I was after and thought might be the solution.

Many many thanks...much frustration shall now be avoided.

Cheers...from a fellow Wolf!

Nice one LoneWolf! Marked as Fixed