Windows 7: How to Clear the Print Queue
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Windows 7 It’s always a major pain when you check your printer queue and see a long list of items that never made it to the printer (something went wrong). Here’s a quick and easy way to clear your printer queue, so when you’ve solved the problem, you won’t get slammed by all of those queued items.
1. Click the Start Orb.
2. Click All Programs and select Accessories.
3. Right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
4. Input net stop spooler and press Return.
5. Input del %systemroot%\System32\spool\printers\* /Q and press Return.
6. Input net start spooler and press Return.
Your printer queue should now be cleared and ready to go.
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Nicholas K said on August 18, 2010
Thanks… This always bugs me when I can’t clear the printer spooler/status. Worked perfectly!
Hes said on November 24, 2010
dident work for me
Sara said on February 14, 2011
That was great, thank you. I’m a techofobe so I was very pleased when someone had put a step by step online!
Speck333 said on April 2, 2011
THANK YOU!!!!!!
One would think that Microsoft would offer this to their CUSTOMERS for free since their product @#$%@# up.
Anonymous said on July 22, 2011
After all these years, Windows still has this problem. Network printing, and hanging in the print queue of print jobs increased. It gives users a headache.
Anonymous said on July 23, 2011
It is interesting that Windows 7 can Clear the Print Queue.