Unable to reinstall RAS Universal Printing module due to Printer Spooler timeout

Symptoms

When are you trying to install\uninstall Universal Printing Module following events occurred:

Cause

Universal Printing Module module failed to install\uninstall due to time out of staring\stopping spooler.

Resolution

By default, the timeout is 30 seconds. Sometimes Spooler needs some additional time to start\stop

In order to modify timeout for Spooler please follow steps:

1. Backup the registry Key:

2. You can download and use this reg file spooler.reg

3. Or you can add the following Keys manually:

with DWORD value "SpoolerTimeout" and Hexadecimal Value data which contains time in seconds.

Example:

"SpoolerTimeout"=dword:180

Here we have increased timeout for 180 seconds