How to Clear the Print Queue!

In every work place you're bound to run into an issue with printing. Whether it is with a print server or local printers, some print jobs get suck causing whatever you are trying to print afterwards to back up and not print. Here are a few steps you can take to clear the print queue and get back to printing in no time!

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Manually Clearing the Print Queue

1. Click on Start and type in Services and select "Run as administrator"

when prompted, log in with your administrator Username and password

2. Scroll down to Print Spooler, right click and select Stop

Minimize this screen, you'll be back in it shortly

You will see a service control dialog box pop up with a bar and then close on its own.

3. Open up File Explorer and navigate to the following path:

C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS

4. Delete everything in the folder

5. Open Services and navigate to Print Spooler. Right click and select Restart.

You will see a service control dialog box pop up with a bar and then close on its own.

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Run a Batch file to Automatically Clear it out

To create a batch file first open up Notepad or any text editor.

in this example we'll use Notepad

Then type the following or copy and paste it:

net stop spooler

del %systemroot%\System32\spool\printers* /Q

net start spooler

In the File name: write whatever you want to name the file as and add a .bat afterwards.

In the Save as type: make sure you change the dropdown box from .text to All files.

Save the file and you've just created a simple double click way to clear out a stuck print queue.