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Should I remove HP Customer Participation Program?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
67% remove it33% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Fair
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #8,311
United States Rank #6,160
Reach 0.0480%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 17.00 days
501.62 days >
Average installed length: 263.56 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
11.0 100.00%

Typically installed together

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HP Customer Participation Program 11.0

What is HP Customer Participation Program?

HP Customer Participation Program is a bundled software application installed with a new HP PC that provides customers the ability to participate in market research designed to improve HP products and experiences, and various programs with benefits such as special offers, awards and enhanced technical support. This program will prompt users to report problems and issues encountered on their HP machine should they arise for which HP uses this information to develop, test and release patches and fixes for the reported issues.

About  (from Hewlett-Packard)

Provides benefits that are only available to HP Printing customers. You can participate in market research designed to improve your experience of using the HP product. Participation in the survey is completely voluntary.

Overview

It is typically pre-installed with most new Hewlett-Packard computers. Many users end up uninstalling this after less than a month of it being installed.

This program is pre-installed on some PCs

Pre-installed software such as this is usually included by default on the manufacturer's PC. Many OEM (original equipment manufacture) software that is included with a new PC is useful and in many cases required for the PC to function properly as in the case of various software drivers. However, some pre-installed software is optional and can be safely removed.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.hp.com
Help link: www.hp.com/support
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\HP\Digital Imaging\ExtCapUninstall\hpzscr01.exe -datfile hpqhsc01.dat

How do I remove HP Customer Participation Program?

You can uninstall HP Customer Participation Program from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program HP Customer Participation Program 11.0, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove HP Customer Participation Program.

OS VERSIONS
Win Vista (SP2) 65%
Win 7 0%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 67%
Keep it 33%
 
GLOBAL RANK
#8,311

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows Vista 70.36%
Windows XP 21.62%
Windows 7 6.86%
Windows 10 1.16%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 62.22%
Microsoft Windows XP 21.45%
Windows Vista Home Basic 6.19%
Windows 7 Home Premium 5.02%
Windows Vista Business 1.49%
Windows 7 Professional 0.75%

Distribution by countryGeography

62.05% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 62.05%
  Germany 6.85%
  France 5.59%
  Canada 5.28%
  Italy 2.52%
  United Kingdom 2.05%
  Spain 1.73%
  Brazil 1.18%
  Australia 1.10%
  Poland 1.10%
  Argentina 0.87%
  Belgium 0.79%
  Portugal 0.63%
  Netherlands 0.63%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 40.69%
Dell 21.47%
Toshiba 11.11%
Acer 9.31%
GIGABYTE 3.45%
American Megatrends 3.15%
Gateway 3.00%
Medion 2.40%
Samsung 2.25%
Intel 2.10%
Sahara 1.05%
Common models
Dell Inspiron 530 5.46%
Dell Inspiron 530s 3.72%
HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook ... 3.47%
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... 3.23%
TOSHIBA Satellite L305 2.98%
Hewlett-Packard Compaq Pr... 2.73%

About Hewlett-Packard

HP provides products, software solutions and services to consumers, from enterprises to consumers including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
Publisher URL: www.hp.com

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