How to delete the obnoxious HP "Share-to-Web Upload Folder" on Desktop

[Sharon B.]

Do you know how to delete the obnoxious HP printer desktop icon:
Share-to-Web Upload Folder

When I right-click on that unwanted HP printer desktop icon, my WinXP SP2
system hangs forever.

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?
More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

 

[Og]

Do you know how to delete the obnoxious HP printer desktop icon:
Share-to-Web Upload Folder

When I right-click on that unwanted HP printer desktop icon, my WinXP SP2
system hangs forever.

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?
More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

This is a peer-to-peer site devoted to resolving Windows XP problems;
this is NOT Technical Support for HP software problems.
Steve

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Sharon,

This is an HP issue. For resolution, see the following article.

HP All-in-One Product Family - How to Remove the Share-to-Web Desktop Icon :
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...&docname=bpu01867&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Do you know how to delete the obnoxious HP printer desktop icon:
Share-to-Web Upload Folder

When I right-click on that unwanted HP printer desktop icon, my WinXP SP2
system hangs forever.

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?
More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

 

[Jonny]

Do you know how to delete the obnoxious HP printer desktop icon:
Share-to-Web Upload Folder

When I right-click on that unwanted HP printer desktop icon, my WinXP SP2
system hangs forever.

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?
More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

It was sometime ago, so am recalling with low confidence here. HP laptop
with same thing. Removal was within add/remove programs.

 

[Tom Crooze]

Hi Sharon,

I had the same thing when I reinstalled my HP Printer the other day.
First , highlighted it and clicked DELTE ( and nothing happened, ) so I
right clicked it and there was a REMOVE FROM DESKTOP option that worked
perfectly.
I'm no expert , but if you can't successfully bring up the Right Click
option , I might try booting to safe mode ( hitting the F8 ) key during
boot , and then try the right click.
I don't believe trying that will do any harm ( of course, someone will
correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure! )

Tom

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

Hi, Sharon.

Well, I guess that one or two netequette nazis have taken offense to
your cross-posting; normally, this is considered poor behavoior. But
actually, your doing so has brought up an interesting question from me.
I'll get to it below.

The proprietary Windows ME driver for my 940c has pissed me off. It's
tentacles are too deep into the system; it's caused crashes. Worse, I'm
offended by its bad behavior of hanging onto a print job during a reboot
-- I mean, this would be the user's desperate attempt to dump a problem
process, no?

Well, Duu-uuu-uuu-h, Hewlett-Packard: Duu-uuu-uuu-h!

Is this stupid or what? Whose bright idea was it to arrogantly force the
reloading of a system-crashing print job, forcing a non-technical user
into a loop-hell? Why in hell did the product manager approve this
rotten behavoir? You know, I'd have fired the bastard. Wouldn't you?

Now, to question No. 2:
Instead of using a printer driver with the manners of Dick Cheney, how
about if we do an end run around it? How would it be to instead use the
driver built into Windows?

I've noticed so far that these drivers, while much less feature-complex,
also aren't predisposed to sell me ink and load "features" that I need
like a hole in the head; they also seem to be a lot better-behaved.

Hey, dudes and dudeettes: let's discuss this solution, OK?

Richard

 

[Sharon B.]

This is a peer-to-peer site devoted to resolving Windows XP problems;
this is NOT Technical Support for HP software problems.
Steve

Hi Og,
I'm not sure why posting a Windows XP printer problem to
comp.periphs.printers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
is so bad ... but the good news is the answers solved my
problem with the HP bad manners in creating desktop icons.
Sharon

 

[Sharon B.]

I had an HP laptop with same thing.
Removal was within add/remove programs.

Hi Jonny,
I rebooted many times after trying many times to right click on the
obnoxious Hewlett Packard printer icon "Share-to-Web Upload Folder".

For some strange reason, I hadn't looked in the Add/Remove Programs control
panel. Mostly I'm afraid to remove programs from there for fear of deleting
something that I need to keep my operating system or printer going.

Your suggsetion gave me the confidence to try. I found it in the Add/Remove
Programs application and that removed it from my desktop!

Thanks,
Sharon

 

[Sharon B.]

I had the same thing when I reinstalled my HP Printer the other day.
First , highlighted it and clicked DELTE ( and nothing happened, )
so I right clicked it and there was a REMOVE FROM DESKTOP option
that worked perfectly.

Hi Tom,
When I right clicked on the obnoxious Hewlett Packard deskcop icon "HP
Share to Web Upload Folder", my Windows XP machine just hung forever and
had to be rebooted every time. I soon learned not to right click on that
obnoxious icon (which I never needed or wanted in the first place).

But, I did find the Add Remove Programs control panel did remove that
obnoxious HP Share to Web Upload Folder.

Now if only I knew how to remove all that tons of crap HP put on my system
when all I really wanted was to print to the printer.

- I never wanted their crappy HP picture viewing software because I am
perfectly happy with IrfanView, Lview, PaintShopPro, etc.

- I never wanted their crappy HP fax printing software because I don't even
have a telephone line hooked to this printer (I have a dedicated fax
machine which I never use because email does it all).

- I never wanted their crappy HP scanning software, preferring to use
IrfanView for scanning which works perfectly well.

Why doesn't HP just let us install the printer driver itself?
The instructions explicitly state to NOT hook up the printer but to install
the software first (presumably to circumvent us installing the Windows XP
printer driver).

I DID try to install just the Windows XP printer driver for this printer
but Windows XP service pack 2 inexplicably does NOT even recognize the HP
OfficeJet d145 all in one printer.

Why wouldn't Windows XP have a default driver for the HP OJd145 printer?

Sharon

 

[Charlie of Yackle Ball]

Sharon B. wrote:
Do you know how to delete the obnoxious HP printer desktop icon:
Share-to-Web Upload Folder

When I right-click on that unwanted HP printer desktop icon, my WinXP
SP2 system hangs forever.

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?
More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

Hi Sharon:

I tried for hours to remove the HP Share-to-Web icon from my desktop,
restarting my computer after it locks up. I event contacted HP
Technical Support and was given 5 or 6 Websites with proposed
"fixes" one of the fixes even involved editing the registry.

Alas....I found a solution.

Double click on the Share-to-Web icon

Go to "Tools"

"Folder Options"

"Settings"

"Setup"

Select "No, do not show the Share-to-Web upload folder icon"

 

[Lionel]

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?

The Marketing bunnies think it adds perceived value.

More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

Double click the "My Computer" icon, go into "Destop", single-click
the HP shortcut, then use your 'Delete' key.

The way to avoid installing all the useless, buggy crap that usually
comes with printer driver disks these days is use XP's own Add Printer
wizard & tell it to use the whatever.inf file from the install disk,
rather than letting 'Doze run the setup.exe program on the install
disk.
This is usually fairly painless, but you sometimes get one of those
shitty self-expanding drivers that bury the *.inf files inside the
compressed archive file. They can usually be copied to your hard disk,
then extracted out to a new folder with WinRAR, which makes the .inf &
the actual driver files visible to 'Doze.

PS: Are you still using your buggeroff.org email address? If so, tell
me, because it got deleted accidentally the last time I upgraded that
server, but it'll only take a couple of minutes to recreate it for
you, if you tell me what addy to forward your mail to.

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

In the interest of fairness and complete disclosure, I herewith present
a reply that I received from one Steve Shattuck to my post in response
to this user's problem:

OP:

Why does HP put such total crap locked onto our desktops?
More importantly, how do we remove that obnoxious HP shortcut from our
desktop?

An interesting issue. In fact, I have had a few conversations with a
friend about HP drivers. He happens to have been the top data processing
guy for the most populous city in the SF Bay Area. He's had many
problems that he's traced to the drivers for the many HP inkjet printers
that his family has used (and worn out) at home. His complaints center
on two issues: uncivilized HP driver behavior causing system problems,
and paper feed problems.

Mr. Shattuck appears to know better. In his wisdom, he wrote to me:

"The spooler is a Windows XP function, and works exactly as it should.
You sir are an IDIOT! PLONK"

I hereby nominate Steve Shattuck for the CPP Miskeate Shmuck of the
Month Award. Come to think of it, has Miskeate just outed himself?

Hmmmmmm.

Richard

 

[Rock]

In the interest of fairness and complete disclosure, I herewith present a
reply that I received from one Steve Shattuck to my post in response to
this user's problem:

Why are you posting this to windowsxp.general? Do you have a question about
an XP issue? Otherwise this doesn't belong here. Take your problems up
with the person you dislike.

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

Why are you posting this to windowsxp.general? Do you have a question
about an XP issue? Otherwise this doesn't belong here. Take your
problems up with the person you dislike.

Ach!
You've got a good point, Rock. Sorry 'bout that.
What happened was that I posted in reply to a thread in a printer
newsgroup. The original poster wasn't aware of netequette and had
cross-posted; thus, my reply went out to two unintended additional
groups. I explained her faux-pas to her, but didn't stop to think that
my reply would take the same routing.

Richard

 

[Burt]

In the interest of fairness and complete disclosure, I herewith present a
reply that I received from one Steve Shattuck to my post in response to
this user's problem:

OP:

An interesting issue. In fact, I have had a few conversations with a
friend about HP drivers. He happens to have been the top data processing
guy for the most populous city in the SF Bay Area. He's had many problems
that he's traced to the drivers for the many HP inkjet printers that his
family has used (and worn out) at home. His complaints center on two
issues: uncivilized HP driver behavior causing system problems, and paper
feed problems.

Mr. Shattuck appears to know better. In his wisdom, he wrote to me:

"The spooler is a Windows XP function, and works exactly as it should.
You sir are an IDIOT! PLONK"

I hereby nominate Steve Shattuck for the CPP Miskeate Shmuck of the Month
Award. Come to think of it, has Miskeate just outed himself?

Hmmmmmm.

Richard

is that Miscreant that you are talking about?

For the record, there are some problems with the window xp spooler and
printers that I've found impossible to correct. I've been on all the xp
usergroups and the online tech support site. For an eye opener on spooler
problems check out the xp - fax and printer NG. Lots of posts on the
spooler issue. I've had responses from the MS MVP's to no avail. So much
for "works exactly as it should." Too long a story for the details.