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xstaticxgpx
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winspool.drv

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Recently I've been having a problem with winspool.drv taking an extremely long time to initialize - about 5 minutes. I've had no problems running the apps/games I need, but they take awhile to start and can get very frustrating... I've tried placing winspool.drv/.exe from windows xp into my system32 but that only created more problems.

This issue started randomly (wine 1.1.5) and I have no idea why. I'm running Arch x64 and the only thing that changed on my system was some package upgrades (downgrading didnt fix the problem so it's not that) - any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: winspool.drv

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xstaticxgpx wrote:Recently I've been having a problem with winspool.drv taking an extremely long time to initialize - about 5 minutes. I've had no problems running the apps/games I need, but they take awhile to start and can get very frustrating... I've tried placing winspool.drv/.exe from windows xp into my system32 but that only created more problems.

This issue started randomly (wine 1.1.5) and I have no idea why. I'm running Arch x64 and the only thing that changed on my system was some package upgrades (downgrading didnt fix the problem so it's not that) - any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
This is known problem - if you have a network printer configured in CUPS and that printer is not available, it does take up to 5 minutes for Wine to start.
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