<p>glad you got some helpful help
I don’t have windows- and haven’t had the problem enough to have an idea occur to me,but I did think it sounded funny</p>
<p>I also always have various utilities I run often to check for issues, so I would make sure you have updated versions of what ever kind you prefer
( I use Tech Tool)</p>
<p>:) Glad that fixed it. I work for tech support at school, so that’s one of the things we check if the basic things, such as unplugging, replugging and rebooting don’t work.</p>
<p>juba2jive,</p>
<p>Just curious. Would a re-boot have fixed it?</p>
<p>Edit: Nevermind. I see that a re-boot did not fix it. I thought that would kill the process but, I guess not.</p>
<p>20 reboots didn’t fix it. But I am realizing that two separate laptops were afflicted at the exact same time with the exact same symptoms (and this is not networked), so, something tells me this means that there is some more serious issue that caused this. Of course, I am still thrilled that my stuff is printing…</p>
<p>LateToSchool:
When you rebooted, did you go Start -> Shutdown -> ‘Restart’ or
Start -> Shutdown -> ‘Shut down’ ? If you didn’t already try it, you may want to try the complete shutdown. Then unplug the power supply from your laptop, detach the battery for a minute and put it back in, THEN reboot and see what happens.</p>
<p>What the h__l, it can’t hurt. And if that doesn’t work, you can take your laptop to the bathroom, fill up a sink, balance the laptop on the edge of the sink and ask it if it has ever heard of ‘waterboarding’. You’d be amazed at how quickly the little suckers get back on the right track after this.</p>
<p>my guess is that the printer, which has some software or something it sent signals to both printers, so you are right, it is a deeper issue, but you may have resolved it</p>
<p>Sometimes, a reboot isn’t enough to kill the process so you have to go into Task Manager and do it.</p>
<p>The spooler should be separate on each computer - it’s like the program that accepts print jobs from different programs (Word, etc) and communicates to send the data to your printer. Sometimes, when you just go into Printers and Faxes and try to delete or cancel a print job, it won’t delete out all the way or will just make your printer start doing weird things, like not printing anything at all…then you have to go kill the process through Task Manager. </p>
<p>Do both laptops print to the same printer or do you have a print server? If so, it could be that the one that you stopped the process on was impeding the printer from accepting anything from either machine.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this makes sense or not - sometimes I know how to fix things but I’m not very good at explaining the mechanics behind fixing it. :)</p>
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That’s because it’s not mechanics, it’s voodoo. ;)</p>