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Old 03-05-2007, 05:52 AM
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Default Move windows printer spooler to RAM
Anyone have a good how-to move the windows xp printer spooler to RAM instead of having to spool on the hard drive to speed up large print jobs?
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Old 03-11-2007, 03:28 AM
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You would need to setup a RAMDrive and then follow http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308666 to move the printer spool file to that ram drive in place of a physical harddrive.

In XP, Open Control Panel -> "Printers and Faxes"
From the File Menu, click "Server Properties".
Then on the "Advanced" Tab you can change the Spool Folder to move the spool to another faster drive, raid-0 array, (or in this case, ram drive)
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