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01-01-2010 04:48 PM
How dare you, HP, install the Yahoo toolbar by default! What gives you the right to force me to use another junked up useless toolbar without asking. My computer is set the way I like it. I bought an HP Pavillion and a PhotoSmart because that's what I wanted. I've customized everything the way I want it. My time is valuable. It's all I have to sell to my clients. You made me waste 30 minutes jumping through six, count them, six submenus to find out how to uninstall the Yahoo tool bar and all the gadgets, IE add-ins, and shortcuts you put on my desktop without asking, when all you had to say was "go to Control Panel>Programs and Uninstall "Yahoo memory waster," oh I mean foolbar.
Yahoo wants to run on my computer, they can pay me. Coupons.com wants a button, they can pay me. You want to take up memory with gadgets, and something about Internet printing on my desktop, you can pay me. You can pay me $62.50 for the time I wasted.
The crapware we get when buying a new computer is bad enough (I just reformat the hard drive and reinstall the system). This is a new decade, stop with the 90s AOL garbaging of my PC.
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06-30-2011 12:29 PM
Download the basic driver it isn't a basic driver, similarly installs the BING BAR and does not allow you to opt out, also doesn't provide an INF, so it has to be setup using the setup.exe. Not only that, but the software all requires admin privlidges, anti-virus to be disabled, and will not allow you to use "run as". This seems pretty shady to me.
Had an HP Officejet Pro 8000 stop working out of the box. Literally was feeding jobs up into the workings of the printer and ripping them to shreds. Disconnected it and even the calibration pages did the same thing. HP tech said to hold the cancel button to print a config page. After seven attempts, two pages finally printed successfully. From this he determined it couldn't be a hardware issue. After an hour and half, still couldn't resolve the issue testing my PC configuration unnecessarily. Manager came on and went through the same steps; when printing again failed. Asked me to take it apart and clean rollers and print head. I asked for a replacment and they refused until they could prove "conclusively" it was hardware. Then tech never sent a copy of the transcript.
Just took the printer back and uninstalled all the spyware.

