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Permanent removal of HP Support Assistant from the taskbar

Jun 9, 2016 4:39PM PDT

I've gone into task manager and tried to eliminate it there by deleting everything that was HP oriented. It returns when I re-boot.

This computer was purchased from HP 5 years ago and my warranty is long gone which the "assistant" tells me if I click on the question mark icon in the taskbar. I would just like it to go away as I no longer have a need for it.

Your help would be appreciated as usual.
Thanks!

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I'd pick a prior answer.
Jun 9, 2016 5:05PM PDT

Here I just look for it in the Programs list in the control panel and if not use my favorite tools to check out and destroy startup entries (I use Hijackthis!)

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I just checked on an HP Bob.
Jun 9, 2016 5:19PM PDT

And I have it listed in "programmes and features. it's not something I need", so gone.
Dafydd.

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Small world. Today I took a 2010 HP and up to W10.
Jun 9, 2016 6:03PM PDT

This and a few other things were removed along the way.

Why? This is the last month for the free upgrades and this one was the HP dv6-1361sb with a W7 Pro license so it's now W10 Pro. After the upgrade I took a $3.27 16GB memory and made the full recovery USB stick then did a full reinstall of W10 after.

It resumes in less than 10 seconds now, from hibernate under 30 seconds. Not shabby for a HDD based 2010 beast.