How to Remove an HP Digital Imaging Monitor From Startup Applications

The HP Digital Imaging Monitor is an application that often comes packaged with the driver software of an HP printer. Once installed, this program is designed to start up each time you boot your computer and will run idle in the background. While the application is not malware or dangerous to your computer, it does consume system processes and memory while it runs, and may slow your computer down. You can remove the HP Digital Imaging Monitor application from your startup list to prevent this.

Instructions

1. Click the "Start" button, type "msconfig" in the search box and press the "Enter" key on your keyboard. This will launch the computer's System Configuration tool.

2. Navigate to the "Startup" tab. This shows the list of programs that starts when you boot your computer.

3. Remove the check next in the box to the HP Digital Imaging Monitor application. Depending on the printer software installed, it may be named slightly different than this, but it will list "Hewlett-Packard" as the manufacturer.

4. Navigate to the "Services" tab and place a mark in the box next to "Hide all Microsoft Services."

5. Remove the check in the box next to the HP Digital Imaging Monitor application if it appears in this list.

6. Click the "OK" button and reboot your computer when prompted. The HP Digital Imaging Monitor will not launch on computer startup.

Tips & Warnings

• If removing this program from startup causes issues, you can return to the System Configuration tool and change the settings back at any time.

References

• Windows: Using System Configuration