Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Well, took me a little while to get around to doing this. But i only had 12KB in bad sectors.

But it did say that they found problems with the file system and to run CHKDSK with /f to fix them. I had tried that, as you said, but when I rebooted, I just loaded Windows again, and it didn't run the CHKDSK utility.
After you ran chkdsk /f what happened?
Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Did I do something wrong? I have a splash screen that hides the BIOS loading, is that the problem, and how can I shut that off?
No, the disk check on reboot only runs if chkdsk couldn't dismount the volume to scan it. It runs after the BIOS POST and before windows starts.
Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Okay, I believe I solved the problem. I think what happened was Windows was doing an update and muffed up the file in the process. The reason I say that:

1) My computer doesn't have a dllcache
2) There was no spoolsv.exe in Windows\system32
Which Service Pack have you installed?

spoolsv.exe being missing was causing the problem.
Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
When did a search on it, I did find copies of it in a folder that ended with i386, and in 2 separate windows dowload folders. I grabbed the one from the latest download and copied it into the system32 directory, ran the print spooler, and voila! my fultifunction printer is now printing again (and scanning).

Thanks for the help Cambyses.