Are you not able to print in Windows 8, 8.1?

Well, this registry workshop will help you

to fix the issue by starting Print Spooler service.

As far as official work is concerned, printing plays an important role. In Windows,

the printing related tools are managed by Print Spooler service running in the
background. This services takes great care of enlisting installed printers plus
the printing operation via them. Imagine how you would print if this single servicewould
not be running on your Windows? In that case, your device cant simply do printing!

In this article, well show you the way to fix the error while starting of Print
Spooler service in your Windows 8or 8.1. By inspection on our system, we found
that Print Spooler service was not running in the background; and when we tried to
start, it resulted the error. Following the screenshot of one such error:

Windows could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1608: The dependency service or group failed to start.

As shown in the image above, there is nothing to help you to solve this issue except the
error code itself. This error wont let you to start Print Spooler service on your system
until it is fixed. Now the question comes out;how to fix it? Well, registry manipulation as
usual in my articles will help here too to fix up the problem. Here is how:

FIX : Windows could not start the Print Spooler service on Local
Computer Using REGEDIT
1. Press

+ R and put regedit in Run dialog box to open Registry Editor (if youre

not familiar with Registry Editor, then click here). Click OK.

2. Navigate here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spooler

3. In the right pane of this location, look for the multi-string (REG_MULTI_SZ)
named DependOnService anddouble click on the same to get this:

4. Here as shown in the above image, there are two dependency terms for
the service enlisted one per line. You have to delete the http value here. Leave
the RPCSS part as it is. After making the modification, click OK. You may now close
the Registry Editor and reboot to get the issue fixed.
If you have any other issue similar to this in starting Print Spooler service, then you can
try following registry fix. This registration file, which is extracted from the
fresh Windows 8.1 machine, will reset the Print Spoolerregistry entries on your
system, consequently fixing the issues related with the service.