Ok, normally you would simply open the printer queue and right-click on one of the print jobs to cancel it via the context-menu. But apparently, sometimes the printer won’t even respond when it’s getting a lot of print jobs at the same time and will hang or freeze completely. What then?
Rule #1: Don’t panic!
You can force your printer to cancel a print job
1. Open a command prompt
2. Enter NET STOP SPOOLER
3. Enter NET START SPOOLER
4. Open the printer control panel. Right-click on your printer and click on “See what’s printing”, then select your printer.
5. At the top click on View and select Refresh:
All of print jobs should now be canceled and your printer should be ready for work again. The spooler service that we stopped and started via the command prompt stores print jobs in your memory so that the printer can access it later. However, if you start too many print jobs it can happen that your printer freezes. So, now you know how to cancel print jobs in Windows 7! THis should also work on Windows Vista and XP, if it doesn’t leave a response and let us know your system.