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Doug - 07 May 2005 08:20 GMT

A friend has a computer running Win 98SE which wouldn't print using
spooling BUT will print directly to printer. What would cause the
spooling feature to go belly up? He is using an old dot matrix printer.

I believe I read that while using spooling one can multi-task but when
the printer is set to print directly to printer that one has to wait for
the printing to be completed before performing other tasks. Is this so?

Doug

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PattyL - 07 May 2005 23:21 GMT

Your friend may not be getting spool32 errors but this article may be
helpful anyway:

How to Troubleshoot Spool32 Error Messages
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191949

PattyL

>A friend has a computer running Win 98SE which wouldn't print using
> spooling BUT will print directly to printer. What would cause the
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> Doug

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Doug - 08 May 2005 01:30 GMT

Hi Patty...thanks for the info. It has been a while since I ran Win98 so
am a bit rusty. The info will definitely help. I suspect that my
friend's win.ini may be corrupt. Will take a look next time that I
access his computer.

Doug
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