Print Spooler error in Windows 7 (Bootcamp)

February 26, 2010 — Mikkel Ovesen

I found this blog post, which solved my problem regarding being unable to print on my Windows 7 MacBook Pro 13″ using Bootcamp.

http://tomgee.us/?p=172

This is from the original blog post (thanks to Tom Gee):

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The problem

Today, when I booted directly into my Windows 7 partition (not via VMWare), I noticed that I couldn’t print anything anymore.

I checked the Event Viewer and found the following error in the System log:
The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly.

In the Application section of the Event Viewer, I found the following:

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0×4a5bd3d1
Faulting module name: TPVMMon.dll, version: 2.0.51.5, time stamp: 0×48359080
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0×000000000000846e
Faulting process id: 0×1300
Faulting application start time: 0×01caa2aa2c4394d8
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\TPVMMon.dll
Report Id: 7188e318-0e9d-11df-9123-895fd79b6e49
Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0×4a5bd3d1Faulting module name: TPVMMon.dll, version: 2.0.51.5, time stamp: 0×48359080Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0×000000000000846eFaulting process id: 0×1300Faulting application start time: 0×01caa2aa2c4394d8Faulting application path: C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exeFaulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\TPVMMon.dllReport Id: 7188e318-0e9d-11df-9123-895fd79b6e49

The only thing I could attribute the Print Spooler issue to was VMWare Fusion.

I tried uninstalling the VMWare Tools program listed in the Control Panel > Uninstall Program section, but it would not remove.

No errors were displayed, but the program wouldn’t remove from the Programs list.

The solution

I deleted the following folder (and all related subkeys) from the Registry (via Start > Run > regedit):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Monitors\ThinPrint Print Port Monitor for VMWare]

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Visual Studio 2008 debugging and breakpoints

January 28, 2010 — Mikkel Ovesen

My development tools are currently Visual Studio 2008, Resharper 4.5, Gallio and Testdriven.NET. But for as long as I have used these tools, my Visual Studio debugger has only worked partly.

The problem

When I inserted some breakpoints in my code, the first one was almost all the time hit. However, when I tried to step through the code, it worked fine for a bout 3-6 steps. But then Visual Studio debugger decided that was enough, and just completed the code.

The good thing was, it forced me to write many unit test cases, but sometimes I really think it is nice to visually see the state of your objects, in the code.

I have spoken to colleagues, and tested with different combinations of Gallio, Testdriven.NET and Re-sharper enabled, as I thought they cased the problem. But the debugger just kept bugging me. I had actually given up finding a solution to this problem, thinking that Visual Studio 2010 would fix it.

The solution

So finally, in a complete other context, I stumbled upon this page:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB957912

And thought…. that title sounds interesting… I quickly moved to the KB article, and started to read. I thought, that sounds exactly as my problem.

With nothing to loose I installed the update, and started to test the debugger… until now it seems to work :)

- please note, I do not use the debugger that often as I write very reliable code :)

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Visual Studio 2008 – ItemTemplatesCache missing

November 11, 2008 — Mikkel Ovesen

The issue 

My Visual Studio 2008 opened the solution file with no problem. However, when I was to add a new class, user control, aspx file or similar, I received the error:

Could not find part of "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\…\ItemTemplatesCache…"

[and the path to the ItemTemplatesCache in Visual Studio 2008 folder].

The solution

Well, one slution would be to reinstall or repair installation of Visual studio 2008. However, after searching for a while I found a solution that is much easier:

  1. Open "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt" as an Administrator
  2. Run the command: "devenv /installvstemplates"
  3. That's it

 

It takes a while but it completely rebuild your item template cache if it is corrupt or completely missing like me.

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2 opdateringer til Vista retter de værste fejl

October 17, 2007 — Mikkel Ovesen
De to opdateringspakker skal indtil videre installeres manuelt fra Microsofts hjemmeside ved at gå ind under KB938979 og KB938194.

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Health monitoring explained ASP.NET

October 10, 2007 — Mikkel Ovesen

Original post: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/031407-1.aspx

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