Anyone know why http is included in print spooler default dependency at Win 7? Can we safely remove it out from the dependency?

Hi , The Windows printing architecture consists of a print spooler and a set of print drivers. One of the print providers with provided by Microsoft is Inetpp.dll. Inetpp.dll - HTTP print provider. Handles print jobs sent to a URL. More information, please refer to this blog: Basic Printing ArchitectureTracy Cai TechNet Community Support

Yes, you can... because of in the case that this fails, you can recreate dependency sc config spooler depend ... Regards Milos

But is there anyone the reason behind why http included in print spooler dependency? Or there is any usage for this?

Hi , The Windows printing architecture consists of a print spooler and a set of print drivers. One of the print providers with provided by Microsoft is Inetpp.dll. Inetpp.dll - HTTP print provider. Handles print jobs sent to a URL. More information, please refer to this blog: Basic Printing ArchitectureTracy Cai TechNet Community Support