BACKGROUND:
A few months ago I installed Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro (13″ Unibody running Snow Leopard). Yesterday I decided to try and boot into my Win7 Boot Camp partition via VMWare Fusion v2.03. Doing this installed VMWare tools to Windows 7.
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: 0x4a5bd3d1Faulting module name: TPVMMon.dll, version: 2.0.51.5, time stamp: 0x48359080Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x000000000000846eFaulting process id: 0x1300Faulting application start time: 0x01caa2aa2c4394d8Faulting application path: C:WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exeFaulting module path: C:WindowsSystem32TPVMMon.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.
SOLUTION:
I deleted the following folder (and all related subkeys) from the Registry (via Start > Run > regedit):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetContro lPrintMonitorsThinPrint Print Port Monitor for VMWare]
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