Turning Off HP Assistants!

[AV Guy]

I have recently bought a HP DV2000 laptop with Vista Home Premium. It has
come with a ton of HP overrides to Windows functions such as wireless
connections, etc.

Is there a simple way to allow Vista run my machine without HP add-ons?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Almost everything HP adds is going to run from startup. Start/.../Run/ type:
MSCONFIG
The startup tab should let you uncheck some of that.

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[Cameron Snyder]

Go to Control Panel/Programs and features and uninstall the Hp assistant
software or any stuff listed there that you do not want.

 

[AV Guy]

Thanks .... but now I get an annoying "Windows Blocked Start Up Programs" pop
up. Can I get rid of this, too?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Yes, there are several ways. The popup should show a checkbox to not do that
again. There is also a way to edit the entries out of the registry. I like
the Autoruns utility, since it's a checkbox to remove the entry.
AutoRuns for Windows v8.61:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/Autoruns.mspx
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