{"id":35,"date":"2017-04-07T02:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2017-04-07T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:42:20","slug":"solved-windows-cannot-connect-to-the-printer-the-local-print-spooler-service-is-not-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/solved-windows-cannot-connect-to-the-printer-the-local-print-spooler-service-is-not-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Solved &#8211; Windows cannot connect to the printer. The local print spooler service is not running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"http:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/20170407-GREENFIELD-ERROR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"121\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When adding a printer on a network, it seems that sometimes something creeps up from the woodwork that you haven&#8217;t seen before.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been in my line of business for quite some time, you\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t be shocked anymore. \u00a0It&#8217;s like for the Ghost busters. Once they see a ghost, they just put their game face on.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this is a bit of a problem. You usually find the user on the file explorer and right click connect right??? in this case, an error occurs<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Connect to Printer<\/p>\n<p>Windows cannot connect to the printer. The local print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler or restart the machine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reading it again now it occurred that it was pointing where you need to go. Yeah the service.msc if you are using windows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Services.msc, right-click <b>Print Spooler<\/b> and click <b>Properties<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>If the service is not automatic, right-click the service and choose Properties and select <b>Automatic<\/b><\/li>\n<li>The last step should be that the service must be <strong>Started.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p>Now for me, i had to do this 2 times because the first time i changed the settings, it did not push through (i think) so i had to go back in again and change it for the second time around.<\/p>\n<p>After that, i was able to connect to the printer through the network.<\/p>\n<p>Till next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When adding a printer on a network, it seems that sometimes something creeps up from the woodwork that you haven&#8217;t seen before. If you have been in my line of business for quite some time, you\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t be shocked anymore. \u00a0It&#8217;s like for the Ghost busters. Once they see a ghost, they just put their game &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/solved-windows-cannot-connect-to-the-printer-the-local-print-spooler-service-is-not-running\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solved &#8211; Windows cannot connect to the printer. The local print spooler service is not running&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[34,31,33,32,35],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-windows-and-beyond","tag-automatic","tag-printer","tag-services-msc","tag-spooler","tag-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebsitesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}