Joejolly has been an HP fan since the time HP was mainly producing calculators. And joejolly’s calculators never broke – just retired to a dresser drawer to make way for a later model. But things are somewhat different now.
Joejolly just powered off his pc in the hope of stopping an HP pop-up hardware diagnostic from running on his computer. Joejolly has little reason to want all those pop-ups from HP. And he told HP so. And he also killed all those HP programs known by joejolly to produce pop-ups.
But this diagnostic program showed up – announced it was running and started to do so. Joejolly frantically looked for a button to stop the program but he found none.
Joejolly recalls having the option to stop that program in the past – prior to his telling HP he did not want pop-ups to run.
Joejolly powered off his pc in the hope of stopping the program.
It wasn’t always this way. The problem happened after joejolly tried to upgrade his operating system to Windows 7. Joejolly discovered that not only did HP not recommend that – a program required by the upgrade program was not a part of the C drive operating system. And joejolly discovered, first hand, the difference between “OEM” and “out of the box”. When joejolly next buys a pc, he will want to know how the OEM version of the pc’s operating system differs from the “out of the box version”.
Tags: a long time hp fan, calculators, hardware diagnostic, hewlett packard, oem, out of the box, pop-ups, windows 7 upgrade
