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boki
05-02-2002, 06:19 PM
How to prevent W2k from keeping all the spooled files on disk?
After print finishes the spool file remains on disk and because of a quantitiy of print jobs there is about 7GB of spool files every day.
Same thing is on both the network printer(HP LaserJet over JetDirect) and local printer(HP LaserJet on LPT).

Thanks in advance

boki

jdharm
05-02-2002, 07:59 PM
Go to Start > Settings > Printers

Select the printer in question and go to File > Properties > Advanced tab.

Uncheck the box marked "Keep printed documents."

Josh

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boki
05-03-2002, 11:11 PM
It was unchecked from the begining(but thanks for the quick response).
But, anyway i found a solution. User that is logged on is normal user with regular privileges. But he can not read, write or anything else in WINNT folder(and there is spool directory). Somehow user can write spool files in system32/spool directory(actually SPOOLER service does it) but is unable to delete it. So i just allowed user acces to that folder and everything is ok now.

boki