Device printer windows 7 hangs

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I had the problem awhile before I posted here for help. As you can see, it took quite awhile to come to a resolution. You may all wish to read the chain to see what was commuincated. But the link that finally led me to an apparent solution is: I have been able to open the Devices and Printers now after long periods of time and across a couple of reboots even.

Next, I will try plugging a printer back in and letting it load a driver. But for now, this seems to have done it. Not really a printer problem, because trying suggestions from elsewhere I have removed all printers and scanned the registry and rebooted. But the print spooler service hangs frequently and this means when I open Devices and Printers even with no printers installed, the green bar just floats along and never completes.

I am in Windows 7 Ultimate, with all updates applied. It was suggested I uninstall service pack 1 and reinstall. I did, to no avail. Now since it cannot be the actual printer devices since I have none, what is hanging the spoolsv service? If I stop it and restart it, then Devices and Printers comes up. I want to resolve this before I attempt to reinstall any printer drivers. How could I get an updated version of spoolsv in case that is corrupted? This thread is locked.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. You can check for corrupted system files. Open an administrator command prompt and run SFC if the above doesn't help. EXE and click Run as administrator. Good luck.

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I have no experience with that feature so I would not have known about it. It referred me to the log file, which I examined with Notes run as Administrator, but in all the comments in the file I could not decipher clearly what the issues were.

What do I do now? Shy of a complete wipe and reinstall, is there a recovery? I do have a back up from a few months ago before this problem happened, but I have restored from it once thinking that would resolve the issue and it didn't so I suspect the corruption is older still.