How do I get the "non HP Ink Cartridge" pop up to go away??? HP Photosmart 7520

[justmax54]

Put this VBscript in your Windows startup. It won't stop the popup but it will close it as soon as it pops up:

On Error Resume Next ' In case we hiccup
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Do
    Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process")
    For Each objProcess in colProcessList
         colProperties = objProcess.GetOwner(strNameOfUser) 'Get the process owner 
         'We dont want to kill the one owned by SYSTEM
         If objProcess.Name = "HPNetworkCommunicatorCom.exe" And UCase(strNameOfUser) <> "SYSTEM" then
            objProcess.Terminate  'kill the annoying popup
         End If
    Next
Loop

[SMELL]

i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AND i'M READY TO DUMP MY hp PRINTER DOES ANYONE HAVE A SIMPLE SOLUTION?

[ritcheyvs]

This non-hp ink popup was driving me nuts on my HP6520.  At first, I only got the popup after a print request, which was OK with me.  Then it started popping up all the time.  It was so bad that I turned off the printer except when I actually needed to priint.  I even considered taking a hammer to the 6520 and mailing the pieces back to HP.

I tried the VB script posted earlier in this thread.  That worked but it also drove CPU usage to 100% all the time.  Not good.

I thought I found the answer in this thread: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-Software-and-Drivers/How-to-disable-ink-level-notifications/m-p...    That really worked for a while but the popups gradually returned after a few computer restarts.  This thing acts like malware!

I think I have it licked now.  I used Process Explorer to suspent the process: HPNetworkCommunicatorCom.exe and the popups have stopped; so far, anyway.  The top Process Explorer window showed that as the only process with Hewlett-Packard as the company name on my PC.   I expected that suspending that process would keep me from using the printer but (so far) I can print and scan normally with that process suspended.  I have no idea what the process does (other than cause popups) but I don't appear to need it.  I will probably need to suspend or stop the process after each reboot but the popups serve as a reminder to suspend that process.

[dhzieman]

I too have had this warning message show up and in some cases forces me to replace an ink cartridge half full of ink. I do not feel that once I buy a printer that I should be forced to only use HP ink,