How to Clear Printer Queue?
Most of the people who bought new
printer face a problem on how to cancel print jobs or cancel print spooler when
they accidentally click to print the data which they do not need or sometimes
some edit may be required but they come to know after clicking on the print the button below are some of the tips on how to cancel the print job that is
already in the print queue
Method 1:
*Start-->settings-->Control Panel
**Administrativetools-->click
"Services"
*Scroll down you can find the Service
called "Print Spooler"
**Now restart the "Print
Spooler" Link
if this method doesn't work for you
follow the below method
Method 2:
Open the notepad and copy and paste the
below command
net stop spooler
del
%systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
net start spooler
Now save it as DeletePrintJobs.cmd in
the desktop or any other location and whenever you want to cancel the print
operation just double click on the file now you can see the commands executing
in the command prompt and it exits after automatically deleting the print
queues
Method 3:
There are some free tools and
commercial tool which can do the trick, Print Job Assassin is one such
commercial tool and DeletePendingPrintJobs is a tool from Microsoft that does
the job if you guys know any other sweet and smart way to do it let us know.

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