This is a not a problem with vista, it is with lexmark that installs a spooler dependent on itself. I really resent Microsoft's first response to the gentleman who had the lexmark with the print spooler that stopped and it appears microsoft knows the answer because they did everything they could to try to avoid answering the question. It would be sort of like filing an insurance claim and the insurance company wanting to know the name of your mothers 2nd cousins niece before they pay,

Stopping and starting the print spooler does not work because it only stops again. I have had it work up to a day before it would stop but it always does. As far as a clean install, this computer is 10 days old, was updated with all the windows updates, and is a vista home premium. I have no problems with anything but LEXMARK. LEXMARK is not going to fix this problem as long as we run to wal-mart and buy their junk.

I have two printers in my network, the HP gives no problems and I have set it as my default printer and bought ink for it.

I will marginalize (or rather lexmark has marginalized) my X6150 which is only good for scanning and a fax machine, and yeah if I want to print, the spooler might work for a few hours after a reboot.

By the way, I always disable sleep and hibernate on my machines as well.

This is a LEXMARK issue, buggy drivers, lack of customer support, there is a failure to acknowledge the print spooler problem by lexmark and the CANNED responses from microsoft do not work or if they work they work for a very short time because as sure as the sun sets at night and rises in the morning, the print spooler will stop again.

This is my second and last Lexmark Printer. Even when you uninstall the Lexmark, they make hard to use someone else's printer and the spooler problem will persist as their software uninstall will not remove their changes to the print spooler. To solve this do the following:

Some Lexmark printer drivers install a service called LexBCES, and make the spooler dependent on that service. There seem to be a number of cases where the LexBCES service gets hung, and that then blocks the spooler from starting. To fix this:

1. open a Command Prompt window (Go to "start" "all programs" "accessories" "command prompt"

2. key in the following:

sc config spooler depend= RPCSS

(note there is no space between the depend & the = but there is a space after the = before the RPCSS)

3. press Enter.

To really solve this problem, get a trash bag, place your lexmark printer in it. Put it out for the trash collector to pick up. Get you a good HP printer. Use the command above if necessary to get the spooler to work with your new printer.

Avoid buying Lexmark until they first acknowledge, then fix the problem. I am not waiting for the acknowledgement and I am tired of having these problems. When we all quit buying lexmark and when they are on the verge of bankruptcy, I suspect they might consider they should have fixed these problems but I will believe a fix when I see it.

Good hardware, but apparently, their engineers lack the capacity or willingness to fix this problem.

LEXMARK=buggy drivers, flawed software, a constantly stalling print spooler. Installation programs that both fail to completely remove old drivers and fail to properly install new ones.

LEXMARK printers should not have the LOGO works with vista until it is verified they can do so without a team of engineers and now counting, 25 pages of posts from people having the same problem with the same machine.