Ahhhh... good ol' Value-Added Services. These are becoming standard practice with many types of PC drivers.
My HP printer has three background processes running at all times (Norton Antivirus has five, as well). I still haven't figured out what they all do.
My HP printer is also a major pain to install since it does not use the Windows USB installer standard but does everything on its own. If you plug in the printer before installing the driver, it won't ask for a driver, but will add itself into the hardware manager as an unknown device, requiring you to remove it manually to get the installer to work (otherwise, it won't see the printer at all). I wonder how many tech support calls HP gets over their idiotic installer.
Hell in a handbasket -- that's where we're going. And nobody seems to care.
