How to delete or force delete print jobs

• Written by Ellie under Geek Girl

We have all sent print jobs to the printer to only realize – “I shouldn’t have sent that!” But when you right-click on the job and press delete, the job says “Deleting” but never goes away!
The only way I knew of to fix this was to restart my computer. But, that’s a huge pain when I have four or five programs open and working online, too!
Follow the directions below to manually force delete print jobs. You won’t have to reboot your computer afterwards, either!

1. Browse to Start -> Run… and type in “NET STOP SPOOLER” – this will stop the print spooler service. (In Vista, you can just type this in the Search box; and when testing, the next two steps were unnecessary; however, try them anyway!)
2. Browse to your windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\ folder
3. You should see files there ending in .SPL and .SHD created around the time you tried to print – delete these files.
4. Browse to Start -> Run… and type in “NET START SPOOLER” (this will restart the print spooler service)
5. Double click the printer icon in the lower-right corner of your taskbar to examine your print job queue and browse to View -> Refresh.

Thanks Ellie for the tip.

IBM ServerGuide

IBM ServerGuide download matrix
https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-GUIDE&brandind=5000008


This is the installation disc that makes things so much easier when you are attempting to do a fresh install on an IBM xSeries server.

IBM xSeries 346 PCI slots

This is a picture of the PCI riser card in my IBM xSeries 346 8840-45u server

From this diagram, I surmise that the PCI slots are the 3.3v 64-bit style.

Remote Business Contact Manager Database

A handy tool to ease the setup of a BCM Database: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b8e7aa0f-f593-4fb4-b822-dd662af1a6cb&DisplayLang=en

This tool allows administrators to host Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 database on a computer on which Microsoft Office 2007 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 are not installed. Once installed on a server, this tool will allow user to:


- Create and backup Business Contact Manager 2007 databases. To create a database, user must be the local administrator.

- Restore databases from Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007, Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 and Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 (Update).

- Share Business Contact Manager databases to other users on a local network.

It will ensure that necessary firewall ports are opened, that users are granted permission to the database, and that the SQL instance is configured to allow external connections. These operations will require the user be a local administrator.

Lost Generation

Superb car handling.

This guy is having way too much fun. (Jealous)

You can see that the making of the video was not flawless, but the sheer skill needed to perform some of the challenges is amazing.

Ken Block Gymkhana Practice

Round Dog vs. Square Hole

Cute clip of a young puppy trying to squeeze through a tiny hole.