Hp Software is a pain to uninstall under Windows. Normally thats not a Problem, but when you have to reinstall everthing, it is.
My ProblemI have one of these HP All-In-One Machines (fax, scan, print) and am actually quite happy with it (I might add some scripts I wrote for scanning in the Linux section). I use the HP AIO via the router directly on the network, so all my machines can connect to it. Now because of an unknown reason, I couldn't access the printer any more from my windows box. So I thought - 'No Problem, lets reinstall the driver' - boy, was I wrong there. First I had to find the seoftware (hp_LJ3050-3052-3055-3390-3392_Full_Solution) - which in itself took quite some time. Then I reinstalled it - which didnt do anything. So I decided I uninstall the software and then do a normal install. Which did not work. I always kept getting errors close to the end of the HP Setup. Stuff like:
Error...
Now Launching=X:hpzwrp01.exe m dpinstxml_vista l XXX f X:hpoins18.dat Validate No dat Validate No = Application did not return ERROR_SUCCESS. Returned 0x643 Exit code=1063
The SolutionI also posted it on the HP support Forum but here it is also on my page: The problem is, that the software uninstall doesnt really work, so I had to do some extra work there.
I deleted all hp files I could find (there might be more!) namely: hpgwiamd.dll hpipxmui.hlp HPPADT40.DLL HPPAMON0.DLL HPPAPML0.DLL HPPAPTS0.DLL [hppasc01_EBE033E16463F6EF09D374CC7001EE296F578906] HPPASNM0.DLL [hppcew01_822AC12FC31B86EE40F672E4949BFF941D027D3B] [hppcp601_AB3DD7A7977C2081B2EFE67AF558DFDDE18E41E9] [hpsj_0002] hptcpmib.dll hptcpmon.dll hptcpmon.ini hptcpmui.dll hptcpmui.hlp hpzc3212.dll [hpzid414_96E140791F473BE81F5C7617726CDC740CFFC84A] HPZidr12.dll HPZinw12.exe HPZipm12.exe HPZipr12.dll [hpzipr13_46F40A09802AEFED7E09F08193BA94BE914ADC76] hpzipt12.dll hpzisn12.dll [hpzius13_A2CE9D2BCFB782472C86C186A71D16A8BB4557C4] hpzjfw01.dll hpzjsn01.dll
they are scattered in the windows/system32 folder (I just moved all of them in a folder on my desktop - just in case :P).
I then removed all HP stuff from my registry (open regedit and search for "Hewlett-Packard") it should come up in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Hewlett-Packard and a few other places. just delete them all
Then I rebooted and suddenly the installation didnt fail any more and everything worked fine.
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