HP Smart Print

[rhin0ski]

I'm tempted to install HP Smart Print.  One of the prerequisits is the Bing bar for HP, then installing the application itself.  Can anyone tell me how much extra memory this will use?  Do you know which background process will be running after installing?  Will the background processes be running continuously, or can they be launched manually.  Any info you have on this will be greatly appreciated.

Jim Kurczewski

[Daniel_Potyrala · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This add-on will be enabled only in Internet Explorer.

It will use about 26 MB of memory when it is active.

Background processes:

BBSvc.exe

BingApp.exe

BingBar.exe

BootStrap.exe

When you are not using this add-on then only two of them are active: BBSvc.exe and BootStrap.exe.

This  two processes are using about 3 MB of memory.

BBSvc.exe allows to find and install latest updates for BingBar.

BootStrap allows to run HP Smart Print.

As you can see there is no point in special control of this tool.

[rhin0ski]

Okay then...no big memory expense, and thanks much for the list of processes. I keep close tabs on what is running on my PC. I would have been suspicious of the BootStrap.exe process. Thank you very much for this info!

JimK

[Daniel_Potyrala]

You're welcome Jim.

[rhin0ski]

Hi Daniel,

FYI...BingApp.exe *32 uses 27,268K of memory; BingBar.exe *32 uses 22,168K of memory.  If my math is right, that's almost 60mb of memory just for these background processes (considerably more than the 3mb you specified).  I am using IE9 with Windows 7 64 bit Premium. Any thoughts on this?

Also, how do you get the BootStrap.exe process to go away after using HP Smart Print (without killing it with Task Manager)?  When I'm done with HP Smart Print, it is still running in the background (even after I close the browser).

Jim