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Print job Stopping it

The easiest way to stop a runaway printer is to double click its icon down in the system tray to open the "Printer Queue" folder.

Then just highlight the documents you don't want to be printed and press the Delete key.

Should the Delete key not work, try right clicking the documents and select Cancel from the resulting menu. If you don't have a system tray printer icon, you can open the Printers & Faxes folder from the Start menu or Control Panel in XP. That should keep documents from sitting in the queue from printing and cancel the one that's going.

If you still can't seem to get the current document to stop printing, 1.) Go back to the system tray icon or the Printers folder. Try right clicking the document and canceling the job again. Sometimes your computer wasn't paying attention and the first try doesn’t take. 2.) Shut off the power to the printer. __Using the printer's switch is the best way to go for this one.__ Yanking the cord from the wall surprises the printer and may make a simple problem a bigger one. 3.) Shut Windows down. Try restarting Windows, assuming everything you need is saved. That will usually kill any print job. __No matter how tempting it is, don't jerk the printer cable from the back of your computer.__  