I just purchased my HP Officejet 4500 printer, launched the installation from the CD, and installed the "minimum installation" mode.
It installed software for 430 MB, installed Yahoo toolbar, and other crap I didn't ask for, added a whole bunch of start menu items, plus the installation took very long compared to what takes for drivers to be installed.
I obviously removed everything, but now to my question: Is there any alternative of installing driver/printer/scanner only without the HP software rubbish??
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OS: Win7x64