Hp Easy Start App

[Alma Wass]

I am trying to install drivers for my new HP Desk Jet Advantage 3635. I downloaded the initial software from the HP website and then I started up the HP Easty Start software to install the driver.

I have a Windows 7 PC, Service Pack 1, 64-bit. I am having trouble installing EasyStart for my 9018E printer. I downloaded the Win7 executable from 123.hp.com. I get stuck at a screen midway through the process. The "connected printing service" screen gives me two buttons at the bottom, "accept all" and "manage options." The former is greyed out as shown in the image below.

I click "manage options," but on the new screen, the "continue" button is greyed out (image below). So I'm at a dead-end and cannot finish installation. The buttons I need to move forward are greyed out. Does anyone know how to get around this?

My printer is ENVY 6420e. I have the same problem with Easy Start freezing at the same stage. I bought the printer because it claimed to be usable with Windows 7 but this is more than irritating. "Expert" advice is predictably the uninstall/reinstall suggestion. This is incorrect because nothing is installed at the stage the software freezes. The problem is with the software not working with Windows 7 - can it be fixed?

@PeterA75, since posting this, I have had a few phone conversations with HP support. The short of it is that there is no solution. Although HP advertises Win7 support, that's not really true, unfortunately. The technician was able to go into my Control Panel to "add printer," which effectively installs a generic printer driver. So at this point, I would have had the very basic print functionality. Other features (e.g., scanning) would not be available since those features are built into the EasyStart app, which as we know, will not install on Win7.

In my scenario, I encountered another wrinkle. Since my printer was second-hand from a friend, I learned that its "HP Instant Ink" cartridges would not function until I signed up for the instant ink program. I was ready to do this since my calculations show a little cost savings. However, the technician then informed me that I could not enroll the Win7 machine because the ink program is no longer supported on that machine. The only alternative is to buy "non-instant ink" HP cartridges from a retailer. But again, my Win7 generic printer driver would only allow basic print functionality.

Bottom line for me...I'm going to stow the printer away in a closet for a few months. I will soon be upgrading to a Win10 machine and these issues will hopefully go away for me. It's unfortunate that I have to wait, but I got the machine for a good deal, and would like to use it one day.

@M_ridzon. Thanks for the update. I rather expected that result, but it's a shame that I'll only be able to use the printer with the two family Win10 laptops, which set up ok with the Easy Start app including signing up the instant ink program.

Yeah hp easy start needs work. The mac version is buggy and the windows version is buggy breaks on win7. However I was able to work around this on windows 7 for my never stop laser MFP 1202w by installing the driver directly from hp's site by clicking:

I was expecting a compressed folder with drivers like the old days. Instead I got this separate installer which didn't contain easy start so it worked on windows 7. I'm sure your mileage will vary with printer model. I miss the old days, great software WAS a main selling point of HP printers. Please put in the effort to make easy start work on older versions of windows. Please put in the effort to fix the bugs on the mac version. Please stop posting irrelevant generic solutions and admit when your software DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED. I MISS THE OLD DAYS!

I had the same issue. There is a way around. click the small "x" at the upper right corner, as if you want to abort. It will show you a warning message. you will find in the message an option to install the driver alone.

I have never used a soft starter on a Victron but can comment on their design and use. They usually chop the power as they are triac based and this causes issues in inverters and sometimes a pretty nasty sound too. My one hair dryer has one gave me the fright of my life, not the same thing exactly but I can see why they are not recommended.

Noise equals heat (heat bad) and a host of other issues appear when sine waves are messed with in inverters systems. The ability to read the actual power being drawn using the system will be messed with as well. The neutral earth bonding also has something to do with why the triac based stuff is not liked as well.

I appreciate your taking the time to give me some astute help. I agree that the the noise created by the controller/triacs performing voltage chopping will create a brief harmonic distortion. I am thinking/hoping that brief perturbation won't hurt anything ( Micro Air EasyStart is expected to only modify the input waveform for about 1/3 of second ). I know that the Victron Inverter needs to be within the expected voltage level within 30 cycles, ie. 1/2 second. I will actually have two of the MultiPlus-II 12/3000/120-50 2x120V inverters in parallel so I am reasonably confident that won't be a problem but empirical evidence is golden!

he no longer gets a momentary overload light and a bang from a hard starting ac compressor during startup .also always starts now even when its 110 outside. in fact its hard to tell the compressor started with out checking the wattage on the mutiplus . its that quite starting.

i also installed one on my 3000 watt inverter not a muliplus. for the same reasons and now i have no issues at all . i could not start mine with my gen or inverter when the ambient was above 70 f .it regularly above 95 everyday here this time of year and both ac units working very hard.

It's for the earlier OSSA fuel-injected models that tend to be hard to start. Since the original thread is 24 pages and very hard to follow and confusing OSSAs own easy-start mod with various DIY mods or tweaks, here I'll put down a simple DIY mod into a single thread:

Since I don't have a kill switch available I used the simple switch, but I'd highly recommend using the kill-type of switch. This will make sure you don't forgot to switch back after the bike has started. With kill-type switch you just hold it down while kickstarting and let it go once started.

I have 2013 model with the high compression head and it's hard and tiresome to kick it even nominally. Before it was around 10 kicks at least when cold (or even sometimes 20 on a very bad day!), some 3-5 when hot.

My OSSA TR280i definitely got from being a very good bike to excellent after this mod. This relatively hard-to-start feature was by far the most negative thing about this bike and this mod took it another level literally.

Once started, it feeds 12V onto the battery contacts and after that it's a random guess - 12V isn't too much over the nominal 9V so it depends how good the battery is built, after some time some batteries may smoothly melt-through (push out some little liquid green cr*p and just disconnect themselves from the system), some batterys can expand or even explode and worst case it may even start a fire (I've done this when I was young bastid myself, albeit it needs higher voltage than just 12V ).

Very similar to the original Ossa factory mod for the early bikes, only theirs was a cluster of AA batteries. Below is the 'hand made' Works diagram. It did transform the starting. Switched on at start of play (bog standard switch) and left on until the end of the event. One small characteristic when switched on, there was a small fizzing sound for a couple of seconds which I took to be the pump charging the injector. Also if the tank was empty there was a distinctly different sound. Crude but effective.

It's a much more complicated schematic though. OSSAs battery pack (8 x 1.5 volt AAs) makes 12V then. With 9V there's no fuel-pump noise when you activate it, hence I think 9V just helps to support the circuitry (and capacitor) to have just enough start-voltage to improve the firing up engine. 12V battery pack is proabaly is even better support and hence it even starts up the fuel pump, but this huge battery pack weights a lot too I reckon vs a small lightweight 9V battery.

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