I am unsure if this is the appropriate forum for this question, sorry if I am in the wrong place.
I used the search function here before posting and called HP three separate times about this to no avail. I am hoping someone here might be able to help me.

This is not really a malfunction so much as an annoyance with something that is working (for the most part) correctly, which I would like to disable.

I am using Windows Vista on my HP Pavilion laptop and have an HP Photosmart C4280 All-In-One printer connected through a USB cable.
Being a portable computer, I rarely have it connected to my printer/scanner at home.
When I start up my computer there is a warning bubble that pops up to tell me my printer/scanner is not connected. This bubble doesn't seem to disappear until I click it and when I do it causes my computer to pause for about four seconds, sometimes disrupting other programs that are loading if I click on it too early.

Could someone please tell me how to disable this message bubble?
HP tried to sell me more products when I asked them about it, something to make my printer wireless, but I don't want to do that and I don't see how it would help me when I am away from home anyway.

With good instruction I don't mind altering my registry, if that would be required.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Hey there GPK, welcome to PC Help Forum

If you just need to dis-able that bubble...here is your answer!
Disable Balloon Tips in Windows Vista

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Thank you very much

Let us know if we can help you again.

I'll mark this as [Answered] for now.

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Worked perfectly, thanks.

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I wanted to update this.

I was hasty to say it worked perfectly, but it did do exactly what I asked for. I am grateful for the removal of those bubbles, I didn't like them, but the pausing problem still persisted after doing that (I didn't notice at first because there was no more bubble to click, which previously initiated the pause).

I went into the startup tab in msconfig and disabled "HP digital imaging - HP all-in-one series" from running at startup. Now there is no more pausing.

Thanks again for the help