hp advisor has stopped working
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I've had HP pavilions the last 4 or 5 PCs I bought. I disable all those HP services. However I don't recommend changing a bunch of things at once on a PC unless you have a way to put them back, such as an image backup.
You might go on a site like Black Viper or another to see descriptions of services. I would advise making a text log of every change, or at least making a restore point and/or image backup so you can undo things if you make a problem. If worse comes to worse you want to be able to boot a CD and restore your system partition from a backup image.
HP diagnostic services aren't that risky, but anytime you mess around disabling services you can hose things so your system may not boot(if you should accidentally disable the wrong thing.)
Essentially, these HP thingies are checking a system that isn't broken. It's a waste of time. If stuff goes wrong you'll know it without the diagnostic.
You might go on a site like Black Viper or another to see descriptions of services. I would advise making a text log of every change, or at least making a restore point and/or image backup so you can undo things if you make a problem. If worse comes to worse you want to be able to boot a CD and restore your system partition from a backup image.
HP diagnostic services aren't that risky, but anytime you mess around disabling services you can hose things so your system may not boot(if you should accidentally disable the wrong thing.)
Essentially, these HP thingies are checking a system that isn't broken. It's a waste of time. If stuff goes wrong you'll know it without the diagnostic.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion m9515y
- CPU
- Phenom X4 9850
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- Some Radeon Cheapie with 512 MB Ram
- Monitor(s) Displays
- CRT
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- 750 GB SATA 3G 2 SIIG Superspeed docks w/WD Caviar Black Sata II or III
I agree with Milesahead. The OS has all the precautions that are needed. Just do regular maintenance, use an Anti Virus, malwarebytes and a firewall and all that other, window dressing will not be needed. Just more use of precious resources.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS420
- Memory
- 6 gig
- Graphics card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
- Sound Card
- Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
- Hard Drives
- 640 gb
- Cooling
- Fan
- Mouse
- Dell USB 4 button optical
- Keyboard
- Dell USB
- Other Info
- DSL provided by ATT
It's not a big loss. I uninstalled all this stuff from HP. It was just a pain in the neck.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell
- CPU
- Q6600
- Memory
- 4GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP w2207h
- Hard Drives
- 2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
- Other Info
- Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop