

If you watch the desktop, a blank icon appears and several minutes later will correctly redraw.

HPSA's background install takes about 1-2 min. Running under the User - Execution queue is not an option, because it requires UAC elevation. The installer requires a non-SYSTEM user context to properly provision everything. The user gets a blank desktop icon and a broken Start Menu link. When you run Setup or InstallHPSA in Post-Setup, user provisioning is broken. HP's download copy is actually several releases behind the Store's version.

Version 9.14 is a UWP app, which is NOT available from Windows Store - but WU and Store will update it. This means you can't use a temp folder in C:\Windows\Setup, because it'll disappear before the background process finds it. Both Setup & InstallHPSA fork off a background process and immediately exit.Īny program which monitors exit status (SetupComplete) will think it's done, and move to the next app. HP devs suck, and they've made stupid design choices.
