I love my HP Printer, and Instant Ink which has, so far, meant I have never run out of useable ink or had to go to a store to buy ink.
(In previous printers, because I printed so infrequently, the ink often dried out before running out, forcing me to buy new ink every time I wanted to print another page, at great cost and inconvenience.)
However, I have now discovered that a program called "HP Product Research" is consuming 1.2Gb of RAM on my computer. I would like to eliminate this program! But the HP Forum gives no advice I have found yet how to do so.
This is pretty typical, however. Nowadays it seems most CPU cycles and bits are devoted to spying on the computer user. I had more available memory on my 16 Mb Amiga, which was never filled up, than on my 8 Gb Mac.
The solution adopted by other operating systems may be simply to make it impossible to figure out what resources every program is using. The Mac helps a bit in that regards, but it's still impossible many times to find out which thing is which. One thing, you know who is responsible for a program called "HP Product Research."
Update: I figured out how to stop HP Product Research. In Applications/Utilities I found the HP Utility. It has a tab called "Product Improvement." Click on that tab and a new window comes up, in which there is a box entitled "Participate in improving HP products and Services." Make sure that box is NOT checked. After unchecking it, you must still reboot your Mac, and then HP Product Research is gone.
(In previous printers, because I printed so infrequently, the ink often dried out before running out, forcing me to buy new ink every time I wanted to print another page, at great cost and inconvenience.)
However, I have now discovered that a program called "HP Product Research" is consuming 1.2Gb of RAM on my computer. I would like to eliminate this program! But the HP Forum gives no advice I have found yet how to do so.
This is pretty typical, however. Nowadays it seems most CPU cycles and bits are devoted to spying on the computer user. I had more available memory on my 16 Mb Amiga, which was never filled up, than on my 8 Gb Mac.
The solution adopted by other operating systems may be simply to make it impossible to figure out what resources every program is using. The Mac helps a bit in that regards, but it's still impossible many times to find out which thing is which. One thing, you know who is responsible for a program called "HP Product Research."
Update: I figured out how to stop HP Product Research. In Applications/Utilities I found the HP Utility. It has a tab called "Product Improvement." Click on that tab and a new window comes up, in which there is a box entitled "Participate in improving HP products and Services." Make sure that box is NOT checked. After unchecking it, you must still reboot your Mac, and then HP Product Research is gone.
