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Having a print spooler service is not running, Do This with the help of An Administrator!!

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It is the " print spooler service  is not running" Error.Now fix the error. 1.Click "start button"-->"Run",Type "services.msc" and click OK. 2.Find the "Printer  Spooler  service" in the windows, Double-click it.Then change its startup type to Automatic. 3.Delete contents of the C:\Windows\System32\spool\printers folder. 4.Restart your computer and install printer again. Or you can open command prompt and type in windwos 7 The Code: net stop spooler del /Q /F /S "%systemroot%\System32\Spool\Printers\*.*" net start spooler

APN settings: MTN Uganda

For any of you who travel in the region and use the mobile phone as the primary mode of getting online, getting the settings for a data connection is seriously frustrating. More so since my phone (an android) doesn't for some reason allow me to save the settings from the phone company and I have to manually input them. Thanks to Google (hat tip: ICTD chick ) and some serious aggro, I was able to get the most updated  settings so here goes:- MTN, Uganda: Access point name: MTN APN: MTNDATA Proxy: (blank) Port: (blank) Username: (blank) Password: (blank) Server: (blank) MMSC: (blank) MMS Proxy: 10.120.0.138 MMS Port: (blank) MCC: 641 MNC: 10 APN type: (blank)