Back in January we bought a new HP Photosmart C6180 printer/scanner/fax machine/ tea maker as our old printers had finally given up the unequal struggle.

The printer is fine, but the drivers with it are just awful. HP insist on “adding value” software of all kinds that you never, ever use. I doubt if anybody ever uses it. Even if they could figure out why they want a resident “Imaging Monitor”. The resident stuff usually hung on shutdown and did nothing visibly useful.

When installing the Vista machine I downloaded basic drivers that only do print and scan. Ideal. So I downloaded them for the XP machine too. Problems solved!

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