Clearing Printer Queue

[dakodason]

Could you add the local Printer Queue to the list of things being cleaned? It would be a helpful addition and if everything is working then it would already be empty so there shouldn't be any real dangers. I can understand not messing with network printers, but if they are connected locally then this would be helpful.

 

Love the updates and progress of this utility, it's vital in my PC tool belt!

[Winapp2.ini]

I made a winapp2.ini entry for this a while back, but on some machines the print queue is locked and you need to run

 

net stop spooler

<ccleaner>

net start spooler

 

to actually clean it

[Andavari]

I think DennisD posted this ages ago, and it's what I use via a batch file:

net stop "spooler"
del /q /f /s "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*"
net start "spooler"

[Winapp2.ini]

I've been using

 

net stop spooler
RD /S %WinDir%\System32\spool\Printers
net start spooler

 

same principle idea really.