Click Start, type “services,” and then click the Services app. In the right-hand pane of the Services window, find and double-click the “Print Spooler” service to open its properties window. In the properties window, on the “General” tab, click the “Stop” button.
Click "See What's Printing." Open the "Printer" menu, pick "Cancel All Documents" and choose "Yes." The list should clear within a few seconds. If one or more print jobs remain on the list, reboot your computer to clear out the memory.
Completely Deleting Data from the Memory
Press [Management Settings] → [Data Management] → [Delete Existing Data Settings]. Press [Delete Existing Data]. Press [On] → [OK]. If you do not want to completely delete data from the memory, press [Off].How to Cancel a Print Job from Windows 8
- From the Start screen, click the Desktop tile.
- Choose your printer's name or icon from the taskbar; when the Devices and Printers window appears, right-click your printer and choose See What's Printing. The handy print queue appear.
- Right-click your mistaken document and choose Cancel to end the job.
How to Cancel a Print Job in Word 2013
- 1Double-click the li'l printer icon by the current time on the taskbar.
- 2Click the name of your Word document job on the list.
- 3From the window's menu, choose either the Document→Cancel command or the Document→Cancel Printing command.
- 4Click Yes or OK to terminate the job.
- 5Close the printer's window when you're done.
How do I clear the print queue if a document is stuck?
- On the host, open the Run window by pressing the Windows logo key.
- In the Run window, type services.msc.
- Scroll down to Print Spooler.
- Right click Print Spooler and select Stop.
- Navigate to C:WindowsSystem32spoolPRINTERS and delete all files in the folder.
On a Windows PC, clear the print spooler to clean out your queue. Right click Print Spooler and select Stop. Navigate to C:WindowsSystem32spoolPRINTERS and delete all files in the folder. In the Services window, restart the Print Spooler sservice by clicking Start in the left pane when Print Spooler is highlighted.
If your print jobs still get stuck in queue, the main cause is a wrong or outdated printer driver. So you should update your printer driver to see if it fixes your problem. There are two ways to update your printer driver: manually or automatically.
To cancel a print job, open the App Switcher, tap Print Center, then tap Cancel Printing. If you need help with AirPrint, learn what to do.
Cancelling Printing in Windows 10
- From the Windows home secton (Windows icon, bottom left of the screen) click and type Devices and Printers.
- Touch or click Devices and Printers (Control panel).
- Touch and hold or right-click your printer's icon.
- Touch or click See What's Printing.
- Touch or click the document you are trying to stop printing.
To cancel one or more print jobs, follow these steps.
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type control printers, and then click OK.
- Right-click the icon for your printer, and then click Open. To cancel individual print jobs, right-click the print job that you want to cancel, and then click Cancel.
Click Start, type “devices,” and then click the “Devices and Printers” Control Panel app. In the Devices and Printers window, right-click the printer you're having trouble with and then click the “See what's printing” command to open the print queue. Right-click the document again and select the “Cancel” command.
Right-click the name of your printer from the Printers section. Click See what's printing to open the print queue. With the print queue open, try to print your document again. If the print job disappears from the print queue and does not print, continue to the next step.
Go to the Start icon on the bottom left of your screen then choose Control Panel and then Devices and Printers. Right click the printer in question and select “See what's printing”. From the window that opens choose “Printer” from the menu bar at the top. Select “Use Printer Online” from the drop down menu.
