If one experiences printing problems such as:

• Unable to print
• Unable to delete print queue jobs
• Other various Print Spooler errors

Then the below script should fix the majority of the issues related to either the spooler service or spooler files:

@echo off
 echo.
 echo Purging the print queue . . .
 net stop Spooler
 echo Deleting all print jobs . . .
 ping localhost -n 4 > nul
 del /q %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*
 net start Spooler
 echo Done!
 ping localhost -n 4 > nul

Simply save the script above in a Notepad document changing the extension to either .BAT or .CMD and running it.

What it does is that it stops the Spooler service, deletes all of the jobs in the queue (if any) and then re-starts the Spooler service again!