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??
UPDATE –
OS: Win7x64
Best Answer
On the CD was there a drivers folder? If there is you can install the printer manually through Devices and Printers and
tell the new printer wizard to search the CD for the required driverspoint to the driver's .inf file on the CD.This will completely bypass HP's installer.
When installing the driver through the wizard you may actually find the printer in the list of models included in Windows' driver cache, failing the CD and the cache try HP's website.
n.b. you didn't specify an OS so I assumed Windows 7.