Restart Printer Spooler Windows 10 Cmd -

Usually, the spooler crashes because a corrupted print file is stuck in the system folder. Even if you restart the service, it will try to read that corrupted file again and crash. You must delete the stuck files.

Make sure you ran CMD as administrator .

If you are reading this, you are likely staring at a printer queue that refuses to clear, or you are seeing that dreaded "Printer Spooler Service has stopped" error message. It is one of the most common headaches in Windows 10.

While you can fix this through the Services GUI, using the is faster, more effective, and allows you to clear the underlying file corruption that usually causes the crash in the first place.