Win7 system adds printer without Print Spooler service without registry solution

Win7 system adds printer without Print Spooler service No registry solution, win764 bit system just installed a few days found that notebook can not install virtual printer, because I often use PDF printing, such as cutePDF printer. Start searching for various experiences and find that they can't solve the problem. There are always various omissions. Here, I will summarize them for my own review and hope to benefit others.

Method /Steps

Description of the problem, when adding a printer in the device and printer, it is suggested that Windows cannot add the printer, and the background related service is not running.

Known by Baidu, the reason may be that the service printer spooler is not running. Go to the service at this time. The specific method is shown in the figure below.

In the computer right-click menu management, you can see the bottom of the service options, click on the right to find the printer spooler service item.

The problem I am having is: I can't find the printer spooler option in the service. So I added it based on other experiences.

There was a problem in the process of adding. After importing the registry with reference experience, restart the computer and finally found the printer spooler service item. When the service is started right, an error is reported and the executable file cannot be found. Through Baidu, I know that the executable file is C:WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exe

and I found the execution path incorrectly when I looked at the service property. So I understand why. I went to the registry to edit the relevant parameters of the service.

In order to fix the above problem. I first modified the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSpooler] in the registration file *.reg, which is added, the reference is not used in the experience, I am worried that the registry import is invalid.

Click the shortcut window+R key on the keyboard and type regedit to open the Registry Editor. Find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSpooler], look at the imagepath parameter, and find that it is really wrong, the same as the execution path seen in step 2. Right click and select Modify, change to C:WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exe and confirm.

Go to the computer management again to view the service printer spooler properties, you can see that the execution path is changed to C: WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exe, click to start the service. Can be successful!

Go back to the computer control panel, device and printer, select Add Printer, after successful, you can see the printer option of the printer option below, I also successfully installed cutePDF. The problem is solved.

The above is the Win7 system to add a printer without Print Spooler service no registry solution, I hope to help everyone!