Since this service isn't required for printing using Terminal Server, I tried to avoid process creation in some ways:
1) Deleting services
2) Disabling services
3) Removing permission to HPBoid.exe for Local System Account
But nothing works....
I also read this post http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=370850&admit=-682735245+1190810782857+28353475 but the solution was still far away.
I thought I need to understand better when and how it start the process. After analyzing the behaviour on some server I notice the process was started for only some printer drivers and for all these drivers I found the following values into this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3\
HPBOID.DLL
HPBOIDPS.DLL
HPBPRO.DLL
HPBPROPS.DLL
The solution was to manually remove this entries from Windows Registry for each drivers.
UPDATED: http://vittoriop77.blogspot.com/2007/10/hpboidexe-remove-it-permanently_22.html
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Some drivers, such as the Business Inkjet 2300 PCL6 and the Color Laserjet 5500 PCL6 have HPBOID.EXE and HPBPRO.EXE rather than .dll
These are reinstalled when you add or update a new HP driver. At this time I monitor processes... when HPBPro or HPBoid show up I execute a script that kills them and strips them out of the registry. I am not interested in making a special process for every time I install a new driver - this one shot in the arm process has kept my servers from crashing for a while now.
You say that monitor processes? How I can monitor the hpbuid or hpbpro process to launch a script? Can yopu help me?
hi!
i had the same troubles on a win2k3 terminal-server. the only working solution was a little script:
net stop spooler
sleep 5
taskkill /F /IM HPBOID.exe
taskkill /F /IM HPBPRO.exe
sleep 5
net start spooler
save it as kill_hpprocess.cmd
now open a new task in the windows task-scheduler and let the schedule run daily.
greetings
dave
I like HP's solution. Just delete it, deleting the file will not affect the printing functionality.
See this http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c00850968&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
If you delete them and have to install another driver, it puts it back.
Group Policy, Computer Conofiguration, Windows Settings, Software Restriction Policies, add a Hash rule that does not allow this program to run.
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