Clearing the Print Queue

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To completely clear the print queue in Windows, you need to:
1: stop the "Print Spooler" service
2: delete all files from the "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS" folder (nothing will be deleted while the service is running)
3: start the service

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Lectures and tutorial on "Operating Systems and System Programming"

Terms: Operating Systems and System Programming

Modern types of interfaces are
Emulators of operating systems. Virtualization, Emulation, Containerization
Data stream
Standard I / O streams
Types and classification of operating systems
Overview of computer hardware. System calls
The concept of the process. Processes in the UNIX system.
МЕЖПРОЦЕССНОЕ ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЕ
How is the process different from the flow?
Threads, Processes, Contexts / Thread Classification
Soft and hard real-time operating system and general purpose OS
Operating System Manager
Kernel operating system
Introduction to Drivers. How to install drivers on a computer in Windows?
Semaphore in multithreaded applications
Mutex in multithreaded application
Futex in multithreaded applications
Race condition in multi-threaded applications
Critical section in multi-threaded applications
Asynchronous semaphore in multithreaded applications
Shared memory in multi-threaded applications
Conditional variable in multi-threaded application
Classification of operating systems and list of operating systems
Как запускается сервер
Web parsing (or crawling), blocking protection and bypass technologies
Regular expressions ("regexps," from the English Regular Expressions), optimizing regular expressions
GUI Graphical User Interface
IIS: Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) hangs at "starting" when IIS restarts
Clearing the Print Queue
Different Settings for Terminal Sessions (or Multiple RDP Connections on a Server)
Windows Server: How to Rename a Domain Controller
Windows: how to hide a computer from Network Neighborhood
Windows: how to rename a domain computer from the command line
Windows: Mounting a folder as a drive
Domain trust - how to see computers in another domain by their short DNS name
Domain trust relationships - administrator rights in another domain
Time synchronization in Windows Server 2008 with an external NTP server (Active Directory domain)
Windows Network Profiles
RDP and the "Licensing Protocol Error"
Changing Network Settings from the Command Line for Windows
No "Domain Controller" Item in the Server Manager Roles List — How to Demote a Server
How to View the Current Operations Masters in Active Directory (Domain Controller Roles)
Where Is the All Users Folder Located in Windows Server 2008 / Vista / 7
Windows: easily and elegantly manage and configure the boot menu
How to remove a hidden network adapter in Windows or fix the message "The IP address specified for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter"
How to restart or shut down Windows or Windows Server from the command line
Active Directory: how to transfer roles from one domain controller to another
Where to find the installutil.exe utility
How to find out the Windows domain schema version (Active Directory)
Changes to files in Program Files do not affect services and system programs (UAC)
Where to find virtual files from the Program Files folder in Windows Vista/7/2008 with UAC enabled?
Windows: creating an empty file of a given size, or an analog of dd if=/dev/zero
Managing Windows Server servers from Windows 7 computers
Windows: transferring printer drivers from one computer to another
Active Directory: Migrating from a Windows Server 2003 domain to 2008 (R2)
Windows: creating a list of installed programs via VBScript (vbs)
Reinstalling Windows 7/2008: how to preserve activation status (avoid re-activating)
Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack: where to download it from microsoft.com
Windows: synchronizing files and folders over a network, or backup
Windows: how to change the registry on several computers at once
Windows: how to enable RDP (Remote Desktop) on a remote machine (via the registry)
Disabling automatic Windows restart after installing updates
Windows: how to enable automatic user logon. How to disable the username and password prompt when turning on the computer.
Windows: "This session will be disconnected because of an error in data encryption" error in a terminal session
Windows Server: automatic cleanup of stale records on a DNS server
Powershell: an email sending script (or how to send mail in Windows via PowerShell)
How to extract (unpack) files from an MSI package
Active Directory: how to find (select) old, inactive computers and users in the domain
Windows: where to view connections to shared files (on a file server) and connected users
Enabling file access auditing in Windows (logs of file creation, modification, and deletion)
Windows Server: how to remove the Certificate Services role
Windows: how to change the RDP (or Terminal Server) service port from 3389 to another one
Windows: why the WinSxS folder is so large and how to shrink it
Windows: Disabling regedit (Registry Editor) Launch
Windows: Where to Find the Operating System Installation Date
Windows: Adding Your Own Item to the "Send to" Menu
Where Is the hosts File Located in Windows Vista/7 or Server 2008?
Windows: How to Change Registration Data (Owner/User Name and Organization)
Windows: Disabling Task Manager Launch
Windows: working with the registry from the command line (including a remote/network registry)
Windows: how to check uptime (time elapsed since the system/computer was last started)
How to connect to a remote registry in Windows
PuTTY - how to reset the configuration to default, and where the settings are stored in the registry
Viewing the process list and terminating processes on a remote computer (from the command line) in Windows
Restarting or shutting down Windows from the command line (including forcibly or remotely)
SCP Analog for Windows - What to Use to Copy Files Between Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD) Over the Network
Windows Server 2008 Task Manager: Unable to Perform (Access Denied) "Disconnect", "Log Off", "Remote Control", or "Send Message" on Users
Windows Server 2008: Installing and Configuring FTP
Xen: Virtual Windows Cursor Is Positioned Incorrectly - VNC Cursor Doesn't Match Mouse Position
Windows: Unable to Access a Computer's Shared Resource (Can't Reach a Network Share)
Windows: Unable to Join a Computer to the Domain When the Domain Controller Is on a Different Subnet
Microsoft and KMS
Licensing Microsoft products
Xen GPLPV paravirtualized drivers for Windows cause severe slowdowns
Creating your own Group Policies for Windows Server 2003
Symbolic and hard links in Windows
How to force a check for Windows updates using wuauclt or UsoClient
Windows Group Policy - how to force an update
Xen: Network slowdowns in Windows when using GPLPV
Switching the keyboard layout in 16-bit DOS applications
Windows: net use lpt1 issue in XP
Remote session disconnected due to no available licenses
Blocking USB, FDD, and CD-ROM in Windows
Domain controller takes a long time to start
Intel MegaRAID - how to return a disk to a RAID (reconnect and rebuild) or "Foreign configuration" error
Linux + Supermicro motherboard - keeps rebooting every 5 minutes
FreeBSD: viewing hardware (device) information and BIOS data
FreeBSD: how to view the list of PCI devices on a computer (or lspci on FreeBSD)
Xen: passing USB devices through into an HVM virtual machine (Windows), or USB passthrough
CentOS/RedHat: drivers for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114/AR8131/AR8132 (network card)
CentOS/RedHat: installing the Elrepo repository
CentOS/RedHat: checking hard disk (HDD) temperature
Cisco: how to check uptime
Cisco: "CDP-4-NATIVE_VLAN_MISMATCH" or "Native VLAN mismatch discovered" message in the logs
Cisco PIX: how to do copy running-config startup-config
Virtual Machine: Features and Applications
How Do I Disable the "Login Keyring" Prompt in Ubuntu?
Out-of-Order Execution
Dynamic (Speculative) Execution
Will a Dockerfile Built for Linux Work on macOS?
Why Did macOS Version Numbers Jump from 15 to 26?