Windows 7: Print spooler suddenly turned off.

Today on start up, noticed the machine was a little sluggish, but after a short while appeared to be normal. I tried to print a document and Windows 7 said that I had no printers installed??. Looked at the Devices and Printer screen and only two were there with yellow triangles. Tried to do a printer install, Windows 7 said the spooler was not running. Went to services and enabled the print spooler, the printers showed back up on the D&P screen, initiated a print and same response. P&D screen showed no printers, did the enable of the spooler still no luck. Tried a reboot, same problem, did a recovery back a couple of days, it was successful but problem still remains after a print command. Did the normal virus scan, malware thing, now I am stumped. I remember several months ago 10-12 that I had to go into the registry and change something with this exact behavior, but that remedy escapes me now. Appreciate any suggestions.

Hi meebers, at first glance this would seem like classic virus/crapware behavior. You did a scan and it was clean, but try Malware Bytes and Super AntiSpyware (links in my sig), update both and do full scans in Safe Mode.
Also you can run SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker to see if there are file corruptions this would fix.

Thanks, will be doing that the rest of the evening.

Tried scannow and the additional malware programs, still the same problem.

The solution was to revert back about 1 month ago and the problem is no longer there. Several programs are asking for updates, will do them one at a time and note any problems in the event it was one of those that caused the problem in the begining.