Win7 system adds printer without Print Spooler service without registry solution

The win764 system just installed for a few days found that the notebook could not install the 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.

Methods/Steps

The problem description, in the device and printer "Add a printer" when prompted Windows can not add a printer, the background related services are not running.

Understand 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.

A problem occurred during 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:\\Windows\\System32\\spoolsv.exe

and I found that the execution path is incorrect when I view the service attribute. 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_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Spooler] in the registration file *.reg, which is to add \\, the reference experience is not used \\ detach, 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_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Spooler], check the imagepath parameter, and find that it is not correct, the same as the execution path seen in step 2. Right-click on Modify and change to C:\\Windows\\System32\\spoolsv.exe and confirm.

Go to the computer management to view the service printer spooler properties, you can see that the execution path is changed to C:\\Windows\\System32\\spoolsv.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 below, I also successfully installed cutePDF. The problem is solved.

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