http://www.asp.johnavis.com/ My blog including my Classic ASP tips and tricks, sample scripts, and applications, plus JavaScript; and my experiences with buying and selling on eBay and using PayPal. http://www.asp.johnavis.com/blog/default.asp?id=345 <i>[This post has nothing to do with ASP but contains valuable information for Windows users.]</i><br><br>Have you ever had one of those print jobs that you cannot cancel. You try cancelling it, switching off the printer, restarting the computer, and it still wants to print?<br><br>The following commands should solve the problem once and for all. They stop the print spooler, delete any print jobs, then restart the print spooler service.<br><br><pre>net stop spooler<br>del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd<br>del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl<br>net start spooler</pre>You can download the commands in a handy batch file that you can simply double-click on to cancel all current print jobs at any time.<br><br><a href="/blog/uploads/att345_DeletePrintJobs.zip">DeletePrintJobs.zip</a> http://www.asp.johnavis.com/blog/default.asp?id=345&comments=on#comments 2008-01-31T12:00:00+10:00