Problem with HP printer and Laptop.
I have an HPDeskjet printer 3940 and a Compaq Presario CQ60-420us laptop. When I go to print the power button on the printer is blinking. In the past when this happened I would go to control panel>pri...
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How do you feel about batch file processing... Now some of this may need to be customized (I will look it over when I paste it in.. On my computer it is a file called DelPrintJob.cmd
No looks good,,, Just copy the net stop through net start spooler lines to NOTEPAD and sae as DelPrintJob.cmd put it in a path folder (or invoke it from file manager) this is for Windows xp.. Do not know if it will work on 7 or 8
What it does: Turn off print spooler
Delete all pending print jobs
Turn on print spooler
The Ping statements are just to waste time so operations complete.
Sometimes simply re-starting the computer will fix it.
OH, the line that MAY need editing is the line that starts with DEL.. This is the default path to the spooled files for XP, may be different on different machines.
net stop spooler
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.* /F /Q /S
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3
net start spooler
No looks good,,, Just copy the net stop through net start spooler lines to NOTEPAD and sae as DelPrintJob.cmd put it in a path folder (or invoke it from file manager) this is for Windows xp.. Do not know if it will work on 7 or 8
What it does: Turn off print spooler
Delete all pending print jobs
Turn on print spooler
The Ping statements are just to waste time so operations complete.
Sometimes simply re-starting the computer will fix it.
OH, the line that MAY need editing is the line that starts with DEL.. This is the default path to the spooled files for XP, may be different on different machines.
net stop spooler
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.* /F /Q /S
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3
net start spooler
