Is spoolsv.exe a Virus? - Comments Page 2
Category:
Anti-Virus
Comment Page: 1 | 2
|
Posted by:
|
My PC had 15 or so printers installed, but only two constituted valid links. As in the suggestion above, I deleted all of the dormant printers and spoolsv stopped consuming resources ... wmiprsve also settled down. These two processes were previously throttling the CPU bandwidth between 0 and 50% on a 10 second interval. Thanks for the useful posts! |
|
Posted by:
|
The problem with spoolsv.exe taking excessive resources is usually down to excessively long printer queues - more often than not, the MS Office Image Printer (that people don't realise they've 'printed' to . Clearing the queues (rather than deleting/installing all printers) will usually resolve the resource hog. |
Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
To post a comment on "Is spoolsv.exe a Virus?"
please return to that article.
Check out other articles in this category:
| Need More Help? Try the AskBobRankin Updates Newsletter. It's Free! |
 |
Prev Article: Restoring from Backup |
|
Next Article: Thunderbird is Slow |
 |
|
Link to this article from your site or blog. Just copy and paste from this box: |
|
Free Tech Support -- Ask Bob Rankin Subscribe to AskBobRankin Updates: Free Newsletter About Us Privacy Policy RSS/XML |
(Read the article: Is spoolsv.exe a Virus?)