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Unsolvable Windows Problems #1 - If you can' start the spooler service

A recent case of unusual computer problem induced me to write this post.

Background

A freind asked me because he had a computer problem that even an expert couldn't solve and he recommended to re-install Windows to solve the problem. Hence this friend of mine was a entrepreneur and he needed his computer every day, he din't want to re-install Windows and all the applications he uses every day. Not to mention the costs of the re-installation of his service-software. So I agreed to have a look at the problem.

The problem itself

The problem was, that he couldn't print anymore, though it was still possible seven days ago and he (of course) didn't change anything on the system. The first thing was, that I tried to print. I got an error, that the spooler service was not started. So I tried to start the spooler service, but this didn't work.
Everytime I tried to start the spooler service, I got the error message "Windows Error 0x800706b9 - Not enough resources available". Of course the service did not start also. The next step was to check the dependencies of the spooler service. As it turned out, one dependency was not started - so I started the service and tried again to restart the spooler service, but the error messages remained and the service did not start.
I thought about the message itsself - Not enough resources available. How was this possible? The computer was almost new, had a lot of free space on the disk and about 4 GB of unused memory. So why had Windows no resources?
I started searching the internet for a solution. And though the error was known, there was no solution that worked. One entry in the HP support forum said that the solution was a new installation of Windows...

The solution

Finally I used the tool Process Monitor to investigate. The actuak problem was that: Winsock caused an Exception when trying to start the spooler service, The solution was to reset the Winsock protocol. This you can do by the command line with following command:

netsh winsock reset
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