What to do if your printer job cannot be deleted
Sometimes, your printing is on pending because other printing job is blocking the printing. If you face this you can delete the printing spooler queue by doing steps below:
- First, you have to halt the printer spool service, go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services; right click on Print Spooler service and click Stop
- Now, open Windows Explorer then go to C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\ (note: you have to change the windows drive letter if you don’t install Windows on drive C)
- Delete all files inside the PRINTERS folder. Click CTRL + A to select all files and click Delete button on your keyboard to delete all the files.
- Now, open the Services window: right click on Print Spooler and click Start to activate the service again.
This technique also works even with network printers even on other platform (eg: Samba).
