Any good reason to NOT uninstall HP Support Assistant?

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Is the HP Support Assistant a crucial feature? Ever since I downloaded W-10, my HP Support Assistant is stuck on a page asking me to 'add a device'. All my devices were added already and it's not detecting any that weren't.

I want to uninstall the damn Assistant. Any reason why I shouldn't? Like, will I still get automatic system updates if I do?
 

You have an HP printer? If so, the only piece of software that you really need for it to work is the driver. Only thing I can suggest is uninstall the HP Support thing, and if your printer doesn't work then reinstall it.

If you do not have an HP printer then you should be good-to-go, for uninstalling the HP thing.
 
My printer is a Canon. Just now I downloaded the latest version of the HP thing. It was what I already had and I still have the same problem.

Ok thanks tnthomas, I'll uninstall it.
 

I have a HP computer that came with the HP Support Assistant and I uninstalled it not long after I got it. It wasn't nothing but a pain. That was about 3 years ago and I haven't had a bit of trouble without it. Everything still works fine including updates.
 
Wrigley's said:
My printer is a Canon. Just now I downloaded the latest version of the HP thing. It was what I already had and I still have the same problem.

Ok thanks tnthomas, I'll uninstall it.
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If you have a Canon printer, there is no need for Any HP software on your system. I suspect that you had a HP printer at some point in the past, and now the HP software is "looking" for a HP printer. Delete all HP applications, and you should be good to go.
 
Don M. said:
If you have a Canon printer, there is no need for Any HP software on your system. I suspect that you had a HP printer at some point in the past, and now the HP software is "looking" for a HP printer. Delete all HP applications, and you should be good to go.
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I did. And also a separate HP scanner and doc filer.

Ok, the HP SA is history. Thanks.

And thanks, April. My other worry besides updates was that it scans for bugs, but I get it now - it only scans the HP devices. I'm secure without it, so bye-bye HP AS.
 

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