How to prevent HP Photosmart Essential from launching on removal drive insertion
- by David Boike
My in-laws bought an HP computer loaded with HP junk, and it's giving me a headache.
When they insert a camera memory card into their printer, the Auto-Play dialog comes up, but it also launches the HP Photosmart Essential application, which is a piece of trash. It will NOT launch properly just normally from the taskbar, so that makes it pretty useless.
I tried uninstalling it, but then when you insert a memory card, a Microsoft Help window comes up saying how to reinstall HP Photosmart Essential!!
Is there any way to find the registry key (I assume) that allows a program to be launched when a memory card is inserted?