what's this .exe?

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May 29, 2017
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FM12, landscape-format three-pager, containing a title and a table: no problems distilling a .pdf

I daringly add table footnotes … distiller hangs, and Windows explains confidentially waiting for splwow64.exe

what's all this, then?

splwow64.exe

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Correct answer Arnis Gubins

You can just kill the splwow64.exe process and it will re-start the next time you print.

Sometimes it gets held up by aggressive anti-virus software, so you may want to try exclude it in your A/V app.

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FieryPantoneAuthor

Legend

Thanks for the explanations! If the problem shows up again, I'll start by killing off the process.

Arnis GubinsCorrect answer

Inspiring

You can just kill the splwow64.exe process and it will re-start the next time you print.

Sometimes it gets held up by aggressive anti-virus software, so you may want to try exclude it in your A/V app.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

The process name splwow64.exe is apparently a contraction of
"SPooLer api for 32-bit Windows apps On Windows 64".
FM is still a 32-bit app, and needs to use this API to print on Win64.
I'm going to guess you are on Windows 7 64-bit.
By default, for performance reasons, splwow64 stays running after a print job completes.

MS Hotfix 2815716 might be relevant.

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