This tutorial will help you restart the Printer Spooler in Windows 10 without having to restart the whole computer.
Sometimes Print Spooler stops working or has had an error appear, the first thing I highly recommended you should restart the service. If you don’t know how to do that, here are the instructions for restarting the Printer Spooler.
How To Restart The Printer Spooler In Windows 10
Step 1. Open Services Manager by pressing Windows Key + R and type services.msc and click OK (or press Enter).
Step 2. Scroll down the list of services and find the Print Spooler service.
Step 3. Right click on Print Spooler and click on Restart (see the above image). This will restart your Print Spooler service.
Additionally, you can also restart the printer Spooler using the Command Prompt. To do that, follow these steps below:
Step 1. Press Windows Key + X and select Command Prompt (Admin).
Step 2. When Command Prompt window appears, type in the following command:
net stop spooler
Wait for confirmation that the Print Spooler has stopped.
Step 3. Then you type in the following command
net start spooler
Wait for confirmation that the Printer Spooler has started again.
You can see this video below to learn more how to start, stop or restart Print Spooler in Windows 10:
Hope this helps you. If you have any other Windows and Office related issues you can check for the solution in my Windows fix section.