HP packages all kinds of bloatware with their print drivers. Their laptops are awful. They get hot as an frying pan and the laptop casing falls apart. No more HP for me....how’s that for innovation Carly?
Yeah, but it’s not specifically an HP problem (with the drivers). Everybody does it. I remember an Epson I wanted to use at a customer site once, and I downloaded the 100MB “driver”, installed it, then did an uninstall, knowing Windows hardly ever deletes drivers, but the uninstall took the driver with the crapware! It’s like they’re telling you after you paid good money for their $hit, that you’re not allowed to actually get any use out of it if you don’t want to run their adware/crapware/spyware. Anyway, that’s when I learned that little trick I mentioned in #7 to get the driver without the bloatware.
And like I said, I do have to give HP (partial) credit for making available a “driver only” package that actually almost is.
Yeah, I love how Snarly Carly responded when people were asking her about shipping engineering/manufacturing jobs overseas. She said that noone’s job belonged to them. OK, I say keep the tech jobs here and outsource top management to Mumbai if that’s the case.