How to delete the print queue in Windows 10

A few years ago, when we bought a new computer equipment, we used to buy a printer to be able to quickly and comfortably print our work at school, institute, university ... In spite of everything, due to the poor quality of printers (especially the cheapest ones) users stopped buying them and chose to go to a copy shop.

If you still have a printer that you use daily, it is because you choose spend more money than usual, so as not to have to change the printer every two at a time, as I did. To this day, I still use a printer that I bought 10 years ago, an HP Envy 110 by the way.

Surely on more than one occasion you have sent a document to print, but you have not previously turned on the printer. It is also more than likely that you have run out of ink in the middle of printing, I jam a paper or the folios are out of stock.

In these cases, the print queue does not know how to interpret the reason why the document did not finish printing and the print job is stuck. Even though Windows allows us to cancel pending print jobs, 99% of the time, this option never works. The only way to delete the pending print jobs to reprint the document is to purge the print queue.

This procedure can only be performed through the Windows command line through the CMD application, an application that we must run in administrator mode, since otherwise we will not have the permissions to purge the printer and delete all pending jobs.

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Once we have accessed the command line via CMD in administrator mode we wrote:

1. net stop spooler
2. net start spooler

The first command freeze print jobs pending of the equipment (deletes everything pending printing), while the second, returns to enable printing on computer. If we do not write the second command, we will not be able to print again from Windows.