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?

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Are you sure it isn't part of the autorun.inf on the card itself? – surfasb Jan 15 at 5:26
Yes, checked, and multiple cards cause the same behavior. – David Boike Jan 16 at 4:16
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