did a maintenance/system cleanup/defrag on my HD with a maintenance tool from iolo (sp). Anyhow, HP PhotoSmart Digital Camera software installation program shows up whenever I reboot (I have an HP desktop but not an HP digicam). I have to cancel the installation 5 times in order to get it to go away. Never did this before the maintenance. How do I get rid of it? I tried uninstalling the digicam software which I never use, and it gave me an internal error 2343 and wouldn't let me uninstall. Help?
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program tries to install whenever I reboot
- Thread starter mdude85
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Try 'msconfig' from your Run command line. On the start-up tab, see if there's something related to that program and uncheck it.
If that doesn't work, open up regedit and goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
And take out the annoying program.
Course look in your Start Menu -> Programs -> StartUp folder first.
If that doesn't work, open up regedit and goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
And take out the annoying program.
Course look in your Start Menu -> Programs -> StartUp folder first.
found the annoying prog via msconfig...thanks everyone! does anyone have any idea why this software comes up after I did a system maintenance, but not before? also, does anyone know about the error that won't let me uninstall these HP programs? would any of you recommend using the "System Restore" tool in Windows to restore my computer to what it was BEFORE I did the system maintenance?
Just a guess, but maybe your system cleanup removed a file which that program needs to run. So maybe the program tries to run, and missing that file it tries to do an install do to the missing file.
If you wanted to get rid of it for good, as opposed to just deactivating it with msconfig, maybe you could reinstall the program, then do an uninstall using add/remove programs?
If you wanted to get rid of it for good, as opposed to just deactivating it with msconfig, maybe you could reinstall the program, then do an uninstall using add/remove programs?