Print Nightmare Client Side Fixes

Owned by Jeffrey Shapiro
Last updated: Oct 27, 2021
1 min read

Print Nightmare should be over and 100% fixed. Here are a few steps that you can take before raising a ticket to ITS.


Further troubleshooting steps:

Removing all printers will allow group policy to push out the latest printers from the print server. This shouldn't be necessary.

  1. Stop the Spooler service PowerShell command: Stop-Service spooler
  2. Remove the contents of C:\Windows\System32\spooler\PRINTERS but leave the folder in tact (PowerShell command Remove-Item C:\Windows\System32\spooler\PRINTERS\* -Force -Recurse
  3. Open up control panel > devices and printers and remove all printers
  4. Start Print Spooler Service, PowerShell command: Start-Service spooler
  5. Do a group policy update in the command prompt: gpupdate /force
  6. Restart computer 
  7. If printers aren't added back, submit a ticket.