The print spooler application manages the print jobs on your computer, so if it stops running, the printer will not work either. This typically happens if something goes wrong with a print job.

If you can’t add a printer on your Windows PC, the problem could be caused due to an issue with the Printer Spooler service. In case the spooler service is inactive or stuck somewhere.

Hello, I'm having a very annoying issue with an HP printer: all of a sudden, any user who had that printer installed localy as default printer would crash any Windows 2003 terminal services or ...

Restarting the spooler, apart from not being able to print during this time, "shouldn't" break anything. I think the fax service relies on the print spooler.

Another zero day vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler can give a threat actor administrative privileges on a Windows machine through a remote server under the attacker's control and the 'Queue ...