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What type of connection between the printer and computer? Anything non-standard?
What antivirus/antispyware/firewall software are you using? Did you shut them down before installing HP's software?
Error messages are important. If you aren't getting anything useful at the console when it fails to start then check your event log. If you haven't used Event Viewer before, you can get there by right-clicking My Computer. Select "Manage". Event Viewer will be near the top.
You'll likely see what you need in the System list but check both there and in Application.
Let us know.
I feel for you on those complete HP uninstall/reinstalls. They can take forever. You can speed things a bit by copying the CD to a folder on your HD and run setup from there. Then restart, then apply the latest patch/update you downloaded, then restart, then see if it's still stupid.
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