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Earlier this month, Microsoft posted a new entry in its list of known issues with fully up-to-date Windows 11 PCs: The HP Smart printer app was installing automatically on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs whether they had an HP printer installed or not, changing the names and icons of their connected printers and causing error messages.

Microsoft continues to look into the issue, but in an update posted yesterday, the company stated unambiguously that HP was not to blame.

Rather than using bespoke drivers, modern printers connected to computers running modern OSes mostly use a generic driver built on top of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).

This prevents problems caused by using old proprietary printer drivers with a modern OS and also allows operating systems that can’t install proprietary print drivers (like iOS) to use printers anyway.

When you connect a new printer to Windows, it will usually download that app and install it automatically, the same way that Windows Update automatically tries to install drivers for new GPUs, webcams, or other accessories the first time you connect them.

It’s likely that whatever bug is causing the problem made these PCs believe they had an HP printer connected, and then Windows worked the way it’s designed to work and downloaded the HP printer app as a result.

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One more reason to the list of “Why Microsoft and Windows suck”