There were three security updates today for XP and after I restarted I kept getting a "Spooler Subsystem App" error message telling me that the service was not working.

A restart did not help and neither did going into Services to turn on the Printer Spooler which seems to turn itself off at each restart now. If I try to stop or to restart the service I get an error message that "An error has occurred in the script on this page"

I tried to print and I get an error message that there is no spooler. I tried to delete and reinstall my HP Laserjet 1020 but XP does not let me as it say the spooler service is not running.

I am not sure if this is the printer problem or an XP problem due the spooler message. It might be the printer as I seem to be unable to print in Ubuntu too.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Doc