Do you have problems when printing large documents? Maybe you have a 200 page report that's heavy with graphics and charts and you can never get the thing to print. Or maybe you have problems with very slow printing and print hang-ups, even for small files. It might be that you need to change the location of your printer "spool" files. These spool files are created whenever you print something - it's the stuff in the spool file that's actually sent to the printer. If you don't have enough space on the drive your "Windows" folder is located on, you might have crashes when you try to print something. You can get around this problem by changing the location of the spool file. Just do this:

1. Logon to the computer as Administrator or any other "non-limited" user.
2. Click the Start button and click the My Computer command.
3. Create a folder on the drive you want to store the spool files. It doesn't matter what you call it. Just remember where you made it! You can open the drive you want to put the folder in and then click the Make a new folder command in the File and Folder Tasks frame on the left side of the drive window.
4. Click the Start button and click the Printers and Faxes command.
5. Click the File menu and click the Server Properties command.
6. In the Print Server Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
7. In the Spool folder box, type the complete path to the new folder that you created. For example, if you made a folder called printerspool on the C: drive, type in the path: c:\printerspool. Note that you must type it in correctly and that you don't have the option to browse for the folder.
8. Click Apply. You'll see dialog box telling you that you shouldn't change the spool folder while printing documents. Click Yes to change the location.
9. Click OK, and then close the Printers and Faxes folder.

The changes take place immediately. If you had printing performance problems before making the change, you should find things snappier now.