I'm writing this to report a solved problem with NIS, and for informative purposes should someone run into the same problem...
Today, all of a sudden, I couldn't print anything from Word 2013. The print dialog hanged, then Word hanged. I restarted Word, tried to export to pdf and hanged too.
I have Classic Start Menu installed, so I opened up Printer folder via Settings. It was empty!
I opened up Devices & Printers, everything was listed, BUT I saw a deleted printer listed. Removing the ghost printer hanged the D&P window.
I rebooted computer. Still the same issues. Googling brought me to this site below:
I know it's a bad idea, I only disabled them temporarily.
Today the issue came up again. This time disabling NIS didn't help. I had to restart the spooler via services.msc while having NIS disabled (temporarily).
The issue happened when I was about to print to pdf on Firefox 27.0.1.
Is there any spooler error log or something which I can have a look at?
The NIS history only showed spool activity after I restarted the spool service. Strangely it didn't show any spool instance a few days ago.
Spooler Subsystem App is allowed under NIS' program rules...
1. No, in my first post I stated no recent update. 2. I didn't try to add it manually, because supposedly NIS should be friendly with it by default? 3. I've checked them to be latest, sitting on the fence whether to reinstall all, bit of hassle...
I did receive a nasty error when I was trying to shutdown later on when the 2nd incident occurred, which seemed to imply a problem with NIS?
I think I'll wait it out and see if this issue pops up again or disappear on its own... Will check in here again if it does return...
1. No, in my first post I stated no recent update. 2. I didn't try to add it manually, because supposedly NIS should be friendly with it by default? 3. I've checked them to be latest, sitting on the fence whether to reinstall all, bit of hassle...
I did receive a nasty error when I was trying to shutdown later on when the 2nd incident occurred, which seemed to imply a problem with NIS?
I think I'll wait it out and see if this issue pops up again or disappear on its own... Will check in here again if it does return...
If you have only seen this error on shut down one time, and it does not come back, it does not necessarily indicate a problem with NIS itself. It could be some way in which the Windows Memory management got confused during the shut down.
I have seen this error over the years for different programs. As long as it does not repeat, there should not be a problem.
I'm writing this to report a solved problem with NIS, and for informative purposes should someone run into the same problem...
Today, all of a sudden, I couldn't print anything from Word 2013. The print dialog hanged, then Word hanged. I restarted Word, tried to export to pdf and hanged too.
I have Classic Start Menu installed, so I opened up Printer folder via Settings. It was empty!
I opened up Devices & Printers, everything was listed, BUT I saw a deleted printer listed. Removing the ghost printer hanged the D&P window.
I rebooted computer. Still the same issues. Googling brought me to this site below: