There is a freeware called "stalled printer repair" that works fine on Windows XP machines. Everyone is talking about power-cyclling in the comments section. No one just restarts the print spooler? The real way to clear stubborn print jobs is to stop the "Print Spooler" service. Restart "Print Spooler" service. All set. No reboot required in most cases. I think this advice is a helpful first step. Working with the print spooler is what I do next if the issue persists.
I didn't want to see a negative spice count so I upped the one here. If you are a beginner then this would work. This how-to is not intended for us techs but was originally designed for the Knowledge base for our users. As others said, really for end users. Right-click the stalled print job, click Cancel , and click Yes.
Windows Vista. Windows Vista Click and select Control Panel. Click Printer under Hardware and Sound. Select your product name, then right-click your product name and select Open.
Right click the stalled print job, click Cancel , and click Yes. Windows XP. You can pause a document, in which case it remains in the print queue but does not print until you choose to resume printing.
Other documents waiting in the queue continue to print. To pause a document, right-click the document and choose Pause from the context menu; the status of the document in the print queue window changes to Paused. Right-click on the document and choose Resume from the context menu when you are ready for the document to continue printing. You can also restart a document so that it prints from the beginning.
When you resume a paused document, it begins printing again from the point where it left off when it was paused. However, you can also restart a paused print job so that it begins printing from the beginning of the document. This can be useful if, for example, you start to print a document and then realize the wrong paper is loaded in the printer.
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