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From: Don Phillipson on 24 Sep 2008 14:34
Reinstallation of Dell printer (Lexmark) could not proceed
since Spooler Service not turned on and could not be
turned on (Error 1068).

"ianto" <me(a)myplace.invalid> wrote in message
news:eltad4hb5fedpo76gu3nm1dnkenv6t1ced(a)4ax.com...

> Take a look at this page:
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

This (and the MS KB page it cites) solved the problem
and Dell 910 printer now is printing, after removing sundry
Registry items and rebooting with Dell printer CD in place.

But there was one delay since RPC (= Remote Procedure
Call Locator) service "unavailable" hence new Error 1058.
In / Admin Tools / Services RPC turned out to be set to Network
-- no idea why or how, since this standalone PC is not networked.
But it could be reset to Workstation, when printer installation
proceeded OK.

Any ideas how this misconfiguration arose?

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


From: ianto on 24 Sep 2008 17:25
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:34:43 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
<e925(a)SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:

>Reinstallation of Dell printer (Lexmark) could not proceed
>since Spooler Service not turned on and could not be
>turned on (Error 1068).
>
>"ianto" <me(a)myplace.invalid> wrote in message
>news:eltad4hb5fedpo76gu3nm1dnkenv6t1ced(a)4ax.com...
>
>> Take a look at this page:
>>
>> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm
>
>This (and the MS KB page it cites) solved the problem
>and Dell 910 printer now is printing, after removing sundry
>Registry items and rebooting with Dell printer CD in place.
>
>But there was one delay since RPC (= Remote Procedure
>Call Locator) service "unavailable" hence new Error 1058.
>In / Admin Tools / Services RPC turned out to be set to Network
>-- no idea why or how, since this standalone PC is not networked.
>But it could be reset to Workstation, when printer installation
>proceeded OK.
>
>Any ideas how this misconfiguration arose?

Hi,
Glad to hear that the site I directed you to helped you solve your
problem.
As to the Error 1058 I can't help you with that. There are two
services that shouldn't be confused. One is called Remote Call
Procedure and the other is called Remote Call Procedure Locator. If I
remember correctly RCP is required for many things to work correctly
but RCP Locator is only required on a network computer (it is used to
find information on the server). I checked my two PCs and RCP Locator
is not running on either of them, the service is set to manual start.
Also, I seem to remember seeing something about Error 1058 occurring
in relation the Windows update function and there are some viruses
that play around with RCP Locator. You can probably find more about
this using Google.

ianto
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