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Alternative On-demand Way to Run HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-One Wireless Network Printer?
Does anyone know or is it possible to run HP All-in-One Solution
Center software wirelessly on-demand? When all the printer applications load at startup there seems to be significant drain/time involved. Since I only need to load and run the printer when I have something to scan, print, copy, fax, etc. I would prefer it not already loaded. In the course of trying to figure this out for myself by stopping certain HP services and not loading other HP programs at boot using MSConfig and not running the image monitor at startup I managed to get my wireless connectivity really screwed up to the point where I lost Internet connectivity even. HP technical support was of no help at this point. I've uninstalled all the HP sotware as best as the uninstall(s) worked and I'm now ready to reinstall the latest again for my Photosmart C7280. I suspect the best I can hope for is not to fight this but, when I need to, close the imaging monitor in the system tray if I'd like but otherwise not mess with HP's functionality? I don't have a clue why or how HP's software goofed up my wireless Internet connectivity but I don't want to go through that again. It was all working fine until I got the notion that I didn't want it all running or ready to use in background when many days I don't use the printer at all. Fiddling is a dangerous business on a PC with software designed apparently to work only one way. So, now, are there any other ways? Any other solutions that work? Thank you. |
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Alternative On-demand Way to Run HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-One Wireless Network Printer?
I would'nt try stopping any services, but you can certainly disable start up
items, in msconfig, without causing other issues. I would have thought HP would have been able to guide you on what start ups to dissable, and what if any shortcuts were needed when you wanted to use the device. Generally start up items and services should not cause a significant drain, unless you are low on ram. Its usually Anti Virus apps that cause any delay, particularly some of the main brand ones "Susan" wrote in message ... Does anyone know or is it possible to run HP All-in-One Solution Center software wirelessly on-demand? When all the printer applications load at startup there seems to be significant drain/time involved. Since I only need to load and run the printer when I have something to scan, print, copy, fax, etc. I would prefer it not already loaded. In the course of trying to figure this out for myself by stopping certain HP services and not loading other HP programs at boot using MSConfig and not running the image monitor at startup I managed to get my wireless connectivity really screwed up to the point where I lost Internet connectivity even. HP technical support was of no help at this point. I've uninstalled all the HP sotware as best as the uninstall(s) worked and I'm now ready to reinstall the latest again for my Photosmart C7280. I suspect the best I can hope for is not to fight this but, when I need to, close the imaging monitor in the system tray if I'd like but otherwise not mess with HP's functionality? I don't have a clue why or how HP's software goofed up my wireless Internet connectivity but I don't want to go through that again. It was all working fine until I got the notion that I didn't want it all running or ready to use in background when many days I don't use the printer at all. Fiddling is a dangerous business on a PC with software designed apparently to work only one way. So, now, are there any other ways? Any other solutions that work? Thank you. |