>Naomi,
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>I'm not sure why you would lose your printer by clearing out the Windows\System32\Spool\Printers directory. I think you definitely want to use print spooling. In print spooling, documents are loaded into a buffer (usually an area on a disk), and then the printer pulls them off the buffer at its own rate. Because the documents are in a buffer where they can be accessed by the printer, you can perform other operations on the computer while the printing takes place in the background. Spooling also lets you place a number of print jobs on a queue instead of waiting for each one to finish before specifying the next one.
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>-Dan
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Dan,

I think I was not clear. I had a physical printer on this computer, but then my husband take it to his new place, so this computer doesn't have a printer anymore.