Print Spooler will not start: Error error 0x800706b9

This doesn't work, either, as it is relies on the print spooler being started to add a printer, which is the entire problem: Print Spooler can't be started.  

I have been having the exact same problem It started yesterday. 

I have tried all of the suggestions i could find on this site short of reloading windows. 

Help would be appreciated. 

I tried every suggestion out there that I could find and called Microsoft tech support, which wanted me to go through all of the same processes.  They had no further ideas.  I ended up reverting back to Windows 8. Everything works fine, now.  Reverting back is fairly simple and built into 10...it's like Microsoft was expecting all this:  

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rollback-from-windows-10

I'm going to wait on the 10 update until it has more of the bugs worked out of it.  

Good luck

I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in September. For the last 2-odd months, the system was running absolutely like a dream.

Then about 3 days back, the computer refused to print anything - not even exporting office docs to PDF. All printers in the "Printers and devices" are grayed out. Got to know Local Print Spooler was not running. I looked into the Services.msc, the spooler service is stopped, and trying to start it gives the error "error 0x800706b9: Not enough resources are available to complete this operation." I have tried all suggestions in this thread. Nothing works. This is a show-stopper for me, as I have to create PDF and print stuff every now and then.

P.S. About 2-3 days back I changed my antivirus from AVG Free edition to Kaspersky. I am not sure if these events are related.

Any quick solution would be most welcome.

I have exactly the same experience. In September I bought new copy of win10 and clean installed over old win7 after reformatting c drive. 

 All has been working well till couple of weeks ago and Print spooler now won't load with the error message. 

Have tried all the solutions I can find to no avail so am now contemplating re installing !

have an old xp computer that must be nearly 10 years old and never had any real problem with it - apart from it's a bit on the slow side!

Hi,

Some time back I followed also this article https://www.techsupportall.com/how-to-fix-print-spooler-error-0x800706b9-not-enough-resources-are-available-to-complete-this-operation/ , and it was helpful for me.

Hope it helps,

Regards,

Oscar