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Questionspooler, how to? Pin
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AnswerRe: spooler, how to? Pin
Roger Wright9-May-05 16:19
professionalRoger Wright9-May-05 16:19 
What do you need to know?

When a Windows program prints, the job is sent to the hard drive in (IIRC) System32\Spool\ where it is saved until the spooler service gets around to it. The service is notified of a job waiting, and the spooler then handles the interaction with the print device driver and the actual printer. This allows the application to continue interacting with the user, while printing is handled in a separate process as CPU time is available. Spooling allows control to return to the user much faster, and helps to prevent such errors as buffer full, or printer out-of-memory states which would crash DOS systems.

Nice tool when it works, but the Win9x implementation was not the greatest. It's much improved since. If you want to play with it, try running a few programs, set the spooler to disabled (in the Printer settings), then try printing a document. Compare to the behavior when spooling is enabled.

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QuestionHow Do I disable appearing "Log on to Windows" Dialog Box ,when the computer in a Domain? Pin
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