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    Stop HP Commuincations from starting

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by M@lew, Mar 24, 2007.

  1. M@lew

    M@lew Notebook Evangelist

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    The activity HP Communications is a needed driver for my printer but it's PowerPC and takes up quite a bit RAM (more than it needs to) so I often kill the process in Activity Monitor. But I was wondering if there was a way from stopping it starting up at all until it's needed? It doesn't appear in my Log-In items, so maybe there's way of doing it in Terminal?
     
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    Get a canon printer?
     
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    I have one, but I use my HP for printing plain documents. But say I did just use my Canon one, that wouldn't stop HP Communications from starting up.
     
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    well it doesn't. When my printer's not plugged in HP Communications can't be seen in activity monitor on my computer.
     
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    What about when it's not plugged in?
     
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