HP P1100 on USB & WinXP Disk and Printer icon removal

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Hi, i just installed our HP P1100 from one putr to another. for some
reason i could not get the old version of the install/drivers to work.
i d/l the new installation file and this one installs--and the printer
works.

BUT i am stuck with a "Disk" icon and the HP PS series Icon in the
notification area of the sys tray. they were never there one the
other putr.

How can i remove this icons so they NEVER come up when i boot?

my last install on this putr i had a "Safely Remove Hardware"
icon/pop-up which i could not get removed either--but so far this
install does not have it.

i don't use the "Disk" in the printer. nor do i care about the other
icon.

there are 2 obvious HP processes running--hphmon03.exe and
hphipm09.exe. the 09 program is what i think is associated with the
disk.

hpztsb04 and hphmon03 are listed in the startup of msconfig.

the last time i "Ended Processes" and/or removed a program from the
Startup, i screwed stuff up bad enuf i had to do a Repair---so i thot
i better ask you experts...

tia,
ron

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thanks for all the help you give here.. it is appreciated--you are
very busy.

but this has nothing to do with my question. it is NOT faulty
drivers--these drivers are just fine. it is really the "extra" stuff
HP adds to them.

my question has to do with removing icons, (IOW programs which are
running in the background). i fixed my problem with a tiny registry
change, which btw, has HP's blessing--in that the mod will NOT affect
the P1100 operation in any way.

to remove the icons in the Notification Area of the sys tray, i
removed the 2 entries below from the registry at:

go to HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run

Value name:HPHmon03 C:\WINDOWS\System32\hphmon03.exe
Value name:HPDJ Taksbar Utility
C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb04.exe

put this in your bag of tricks please in case someone else want to do
the same...

and please keep up the good work,
ron

>"Cari \(MS-MVP\)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> happily wrote the world on Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:06:04 -0700:

>Cleanup ALL instances of the printer and start again!
>http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

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