Re: Dumped HP deskjets some time back
I stopped using HP printers ( or anything else by them) years ago due to a ridiculous failed driver update.
The driver software would only install after a complete uninstall of the previous software. OK fine.Except one DLL would not uninstall. Nothing would remove it and while it was there the install routine would not run. It aborted when it cam to that bit. To make it more annoying the version number of that dll hadn't even changed.
There was no option to skip, which would have done the job, just to abort.
Printer was then useless.
I spent days trying to get that fucker off my PC. There was a whole set of uninstall layers and depths that could be applied ( buggered if I could see why it should be so complicated anyway). I did them all,repeatedly. If my memory serve me correctly i even tried to remove the traces from the registry. Just got nowhere.
And then went and bought an Epson
Never bought anything HP since.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
