hp advisor has stopped working

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.
 

My Computer

System One

  • 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
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    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
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