HP's Printer App Is Installing Itself on Windows PCs

Open your PC’s Start menu, and you may find that the HP Smart app has installed itself.

This feels like the result of a Microsoft Store bug.

Thankfully, HP Smart is harmless and easy to uninstall, so it’s little more than an annoyance.

Microsoft is currently investigating the issue.

This bug, which has been reproduced byWindowsLatest, may be responsible for unwanted HP Smart app installations.

Microsoft hasn’t commented on this development.

HP’s Smart app allows you to interact with an HP printer.

The problem, of course, is that HP Smart is finding its way to the wrong PCs.

Affected users say that they don’t own any HP hardware.

A Microsoft Store bug may be responsible for this problem.

That said, we’re not sure why the Microsoft Store would push HP Smart to random PCs.

you might also uninstall apps from the “Programs” view in your control panel.

Microsoft is currently investigating the self-installing HP Smart bug.

We’ll update this article as the story develops.