Changing the spool directory
By default, Windows uses the folder %SystemRoot%\System32\spool\PRINTERS to store spooled jobs. On our print server, PSRV, this folder is C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS. In some cases, particularly when your users generate large amounts of printed output, this folder and the volume could become full, which is not a good thing. To help you avoid issues, you can move the default spool directory to a different folder (for example, C:\Spool), or you could move the spool folder to a folder on another volume (for example, E:\Spool).
Getting ready
There are two ways you can change the spool directory. The first way is to use the classes inside the .NET Framework's System.Printing namespace to update the folder name. The second, and probably the simplest, way is to update the registry with the folder to use for spooling. This recipe shows both methods.
How to do it...
First, let's look at how you change the spool folder using the .NET Framework:
- Load the
System.Printing...
