Batch help

[crayzz]

Anyone any good at basic batch files? My printer cue keeps jamming up and manually clearing it is a hassle, so I wanna make a batch file to:

1. Stop the print spooler service
2. Kill the print pipeline process
3. Delete everything in the print cue (just delete everything in that folder)
4. restart the print spooler service

[Sermil]

Might want to mention what OS you are on? Windows? Linux?

[crayzz]

Sorry, I thought batch was a windows only thing (wouldn't the linux equivalent be bash?).

Im using Windows 10.

[VexingFool]

Not an expert at batch files but I think this will work.

Spoiler: Printer Stop Batch

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@ECHO OFF
net stop spooler
ECHO.
taskkill /F /IM printfilterpipelinesvc.exe
ECHO.
del %systemroot%\System32\spool\printers\* /Q
ECHO Print queue folder cleared.
ECHO.
net start spooler
ECHO.
ECHO Press Enter to exit.
set /p exit=

Exit

[crayzz]

Not an expert at batch files but I think this will work.

Spoiler: Printer Stop Batch

Show

@ECHO OFF
net stop spooler
ECHO.
taskkill /F /IM printfilterpipelinesvc.exe
ECHO.
del %systemroot%\System32\spool\printers\* /Q
ECHO Print queue folder cleared.
ECHO.
net start spooler
ECHO.
ECHO Press Enter to exit.
set /p exit=

Exit

That worked perfectly, thank you!