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Yesterday one of the server hanged because of printer spooler service
Nobody is able to logon server, when users try to logon there is just blank screen they would get.
Nobody is able to access console because server is in remote datacenter, and VNC access is not working because. How I was able to gain access to [...]

Yesterday I have explained how to restart spoolsv server (printer spooler) if it exceeds 40MB of memory.
Sometimes spooler service will hang and there will not be high memory consumption, so we would need to detect that problem also. For this scenario I have written following script:
net start | findstr /i Spooler > nul
if not errorlevel [...]