Helga: You can see in my post #16 it did the same to me with my attachment. I don't know why it does that but if you do a preview of the post it'll show if it worked right or not.
LilSick: You said "Channel Configs" Do you mean the "XML Documents". Having the wrong opening program on the XML Docs won't hurt anything, but if it's buggin you then you can choose to open it with Notepad instead? Or you can go into the registry and remove Edge from XML Documents. Just google "open with in registry" and it should explain it.
To find the Editor and Scanner, so you can do the "open with" thing, you can do a search for "VCM Editor" and/or "VCM Scanner". I'd simply look in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) for a folder named HP Tuners. Then inside that folder should be another, I think "VCM Suite"? Then when you do the right click and "open with" thing, you go to that location and select the VCM Editor or VCM Scanner. That's it...
racer: So your remaining problem is getting your old HP program moved over to the new PC, correct? The location of the HP Tuners folder described above is all that is needed to run the program. In the attached pix is the entire HP program for v4.10. Newer versions have more stuff in there, but the point is if you see this or similar, that's the folder you want. You should also back this up somewhere safe. Copy that folder to your new PC and you're good.
Then to get all your settings and what not, they should be in your "Users" folder. So C:\Users\your user name\Documents. Or maybe it's named "My Documents". In there should be another HP Tuners folder, and again, copy that to the new PC. To make it simple, copy those two HP Tuners folders to the same location on the new PC. You don't have to, for example my stuff is on my D drive, but you can play with that later if you want. It doesn't matter if your user name is different on the new PC, fyi.
If a newer version of HP asks for an update from Microsoft, you have to decide if you want to that, or ignore it. If it refuses to install without it, then extract the HP program instead and it won't ask. I use a free program called UniExtract to do that. Whatever the updates is, I don't have it, and can run the latest beta or any other version.
In reality it's whoever wrote the installer and/or program that is saying it needs the update, but why they want it is the big question. It could be the HP installer itself needs it, I don't know. I've discovered that programs rarely actually need whatever update they're crying about. If they do need it, it's likely just some small part of said update, like some .dll or maybe drivers, but not the whole frikkin thing. So I always try it without any update and it usually works fine. If not, the program usually says "Missing xyz.dll or whatever, so you get just that one thing so it's happy. Since my latest HP beta has never asked, my guess is the update is for the installer itself. Or, perhaps, some other BS you do not want on your PC anyway.
If you do want, or need, said MS update program for HP, then the installer should tell you exactly what specific program it wants. If you do not want to enable MS updates, then you can download just that update. If so, you want to google and locate the "Standalone installer" version of said update. Plus you can save it for next time. If you do not want the PC to connect to the net at all, then get the standalone installer via another PC and Xfer it over.
If this doesn't make sense then maybe I'm not understanding your problem? I'm only assuming, based on the description, and my assumptions based on the usual problems people have. So if you need more, you need to be very specific about the problem. I'm not always so great in my explanations because I do the exact same thing; I assume people know certain things when they don't. If often use this example to describe that exact problem: Instructions say to turn the key to start the car. Person (standing next to car) turning and rotating key in their hand various ways wondering why it doesn't start :o
So if I assumed, or don't make sense, let me know.
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