I know there are other questions relating to the print spooler in Windows 7 but they do not help me. I do not even have a printer connected. The mesage on the services reads as follows: <Failed to Read Description. Error Code: 1813 > This is imbedded in the SPOOLER file and will not allow any change. The spooler is on automatic so it is not a question of manual start up. I have updated drivers for the printer that I would install and although they are sitting on my drive they can not be installed as the spooler fails to run. There is supposed to be a FIXIT somewhere but everytime I click on the link I go to some other site full of advertising which just annoys me even more. Please can we have a simple patch (i.e. think of your customers!) not all of us are IT professionals or live in a teeming city.

This issue can be caused by the following reasons: 1. Printer driver is corrupt. 2. Contents in printer spooler are corrupt. 3. Other incompatible printer drivers conflicts. To resolve this issue, please try the following steps. Method 1: Reinstall the installed printers To reinstall the printers, please refer "How to reinstall a printer". If the issue persists, go Step2. Method 2: Reset Spooler 1. Click "Start", type "Services.msc" in the "Start Search" box press "Enter". 2. Double-click "Printer Spooler" in the Services list. 3. Click "Stop" and click "OK". 4. Click "Start", in the "Start Search" box type "%WINDIR%\system32\spool\printers" press "Enter", and delete all files in this folder. 5. Click "Start", in the "Start Search" box type "Services.msc" (without the quotation marks) in the open box and press "Enter". 6. Double-click "Printer Spooler" in the Services list. 7. Click "Start" and click "OK". Method 3: Isolate each printer drivers and find if any driver is the root cause. To isolate printer driver, please: 1. Click "Start", type "Print Management" in the "Start Search" box and press "Enter". 2. Click "All Drivers" in the left pane. In the right pane, right-click on one printer driver and choose "Set Driver Isolation"->"Isolated". 3. Start printing job and see if printer spooler crashes. If it still crashes, change the driver isolation of the driver back to "System Default (Shared)". Then continue to isolate the next driver. Once the issue does not occur after you isolate a driver, the driver should be the root cause of the print spooler crash issue.Arthur Xie - MSFT

You can use certain software to fix the issues related with printer spooler. One of the best software which will help you to fix the issue is printer spooler fix wizard. The printer spooler fix wizard will help to fix printer spooler error messages and spoolsv.exe service. This software will help to fix the errors including “spooler sub system app stopped working and was closed” and spoolsv.exe service infection and corruption in Windows 7 computer. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/85915d44-5638-46e1-97b7-bfe032cd0994