• Don’t move your printer spooler files

    Posted on March 6, 2022 at 00:37 CST by • Comment in the Forums

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    This came up the other day on one of the patching lists. Someone was trying to install the recent patches that include print spooler fixes and the updates kept failing/causing issues. Turns out the print spooler was moved to a different drive and the update was expecting it to be on the C drive. Once they moved it back all was well.

    Moving the print spooler is something that can be done with a registry key, but it’s something I honestly don’t recommend doing. While we can say Microsoft shoulda/coulda/woulda and gee shouldn’t it be able to know where your spooler is located and not care which drive it’s on? I just feel that your best patching experience is when you stay with a normal Windows location for the files on the system. And while in a perfect world, every patch should be such that it wouldn’t care where the spooler is located, we live in the real world where your patching experiences are just better if you stick with “normal”.

    So what else do you do to stay with normal when it comes to patching?

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