Printer spooler windows 8 Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

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Just upgraded to Win 8 ENT x64 from Win 7 ENT x64.

I thought, maybe I need to restart the service. Go into Services, look up print spooler and select restart.

But I get an error:

"Windows Could not start the Print Spooler Service on local computer"

Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

Okay, so I go into properties and see what the dependencies are"

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RPC is running, however, FAX isnt.

Go to Fax and start that. I get the 1068 error

Look into the dependencies there.

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Im lost at the moment.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have run sfc/scannow and found no issues.

Please advise.

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Anonymous

i found this somewhere else and this fixed my issue

I had the same issue and I created a batch file that I run as administrator:

CMD /K SC CONFIG SPOOLER DEPEND= RPCSS

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2013-11-10T15:37:35+00:00

Great , It solved the problem, thanks
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2013-10-24T22:40:49+00:00

This one took care of my problem - only without the "k"! Thank you, sir.
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2013-09-29T16:59:31+00:00

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2013-09-26T22:11:17+00:00

Thank you very much this cleared up an issue with a Windows 8 machine and the print queue for the Canon MX452.
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