HP Total Care Advisor (Latest Vista Edition)

For those who wanted a copy of HP Total Care Advisor, I've uploaded the file on my website. I am going to take it off this Friday, April 6th. If you guys have any issues/questions or other requests, let me know! I am still working on that random website, but I am going to make a page for HP users.

Well here is the website:
www.parapsyche.com

 

ok can you tell me what the HP Total Care advisor is. I have 2 HP Pavillions. Please advise me as what benefit this file has to the systems.

 

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The HP Total Care Advisor program checks updates for your computer for HP driver updates. It also functions as a control panel so that managing battery, wireless, memory, HD space is more convenient. It also has links and HP support related things.

 

thanx for the upload chiaroscurist!

Just a heads up to people, some of the functions of Total Care Advisor rely on HP Help and Support & HP Active Support Library. Here's the links:

HP Help and Support for Microsoft Vista (32-bit Editions): here

HP Help and Support for Microsoft Vista (64-bit Editions): here

HP Active Support Library: here

 

Okay I understand.. Sounds great but where can I get the file. I am not questioning your intentions but its safer to get the file from the source. Why can't I find this file on the HP site. Please clarfiy...... There are so many rouge programmers posting software code that actually compromises people's machines and I need to be sure.

 

Is this the same as you can download from HP or a more updated version?
... or is this one difficult to find on HP?

 

Ok you sent the url again but my question was why is this not available from the HP site or software archive... Please tell me what happened

 

Thanks for the HP advisor download. I have spent countless hours of banging my head against the wall trying to make HP Advisor work for me. All I did was to take the current HP advisor folder out of the Hewlett-Packard folder in Program files and replace it with the download from your website www.parapsyche.com . I used the ALPHAZIP trialware to extract the .RAR file.It was sure a great sight to see the HP Total care icon popup on my desktop and the rest of the tools that are built-in. I currently have the extracted copy on my desktop but I don't know how to create a link for other people to download it without having to use a zip extractor. Thanks for your help . You have done what Microsoft and HP combined haven't done yet !!!

 

I have tried installing the HP TOtal care advisor from this site www.parapsyche.com but when i install it and run it it does install and when i click on the icon on the main screen which is the total care advisor icon... it lets be to another window and it ask me to dowaload it again ..... I also tried it downloading it in another computer and also tried creating new user account.... it din't work ....

Any other help is appriciated..

 

Go to (program files) folder, (Hewlett-Packard) folder , open it up and look for the (HP advisor folder) . move the HP advisor folder to another location on your desktop . Extract the downloaded copy of HP advisor from the site already mentioned and put the entire HP advisor folder in its place , open it up and look for the (HPAdvisor.exe) application, right click , go to (send to), and create a shortcut on your desktop. This setup worked for me . Good luck and hope this will work for you too..... If this setup works for you, You can go ahead and delete the HPadvisor folder you moved previously to your desktop

 

Is TCA worth it??? I bought a new HP and TCA had issues with my NVidia GeForce Go 6150 VGA driver update. It kept hanging up during the download and when I manually found the driver and downloaded it, it TCA still told me I needed it. I decided to unistall TCA assuming I could reinstall but it was not in the HP Recovery Manager nor came up on a restore. As it turns out HP Update seems to be the problem area and wont complete the driver dnld/instl. I suppose TCA uses that application.
Now do I go through the effort of putting it back on? I am thinking of using your advice but hear that TCA is a waste of space/speed.

Thoughts?
Thanks in advance, Matt

 

ive heard that to use the recovery partition, you must have TCA installed

 

So I followed the steps.
I opened the (Hewlett-Packard) and couldn't find the hp adviser, like my laptop didn't come with the program.

Now I downloaded the program...extract it...then what? Like whats the point on me putting the file I downloaded into program files when I don't even have the program in the first place...So I'm now stuck so if someone can help that'd be great!

 

I just purchased a HP Pavilion dv9700 and it came with the latest Vista version of HP Total Care Advisor in February 2008. I was informed by an HP customer support agent named Elena that a softpaq is being developed that will allow the Customer to install the latest version of HP Total Care Advisor. The version that cam with my new system had some problems, such as the Mini-dock would not load at startup. I was getting an error message "not responding" and then recently there was a problem reporting that Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem driver for Vista was a critical update and needed to be installed on my PC but that driver was up-to-date on my system already when I purchased and received it in February 2008!! After these problems, I uninstalled HP Total Care Advisor in Program Manager because I kept getting popup notices that a new driver was available. I thought I would be able to use HP software restore feature but then I saw that HP did not list Total Care Advisor as a restorable program, yet all the other programs, including HP Update and HP Help & Support were available to restore!!!

I chatted with Elena online about this problem and she directed me to a third party site where I was able to install an earlier version of HP Total Care Advisor version 1.0.94.0 to patch up the problem. This is a much older version and the version that came with my system is version 1.4.19.2433. I tried to restore the newer version using Microsoft System Restore which successfully restored to the point I specified but Total Care Advisor did not function for some reason, so I am still running the older version.

Of course I know that I could perform a factory restore and that would restore the newer version with the trade off that I would have to reinstall all my other non-factory software which is very time consuming at this point!!!

It would have been much easier had HP simply included the Total Care Advisor as a software item listed in the HP Restore Utility, but for some reason, HP did not include Total Care Advisor as a separate program that could be restorted, so the only way to restore it is to perform a factory restore.

I think it was really poor planning when HP did not include Total Care Advisor in HP software restore, and my system is brand new and they still have not paid any attention to this problem yet I see it has been going on based on this bulletin board discussion for at least a year!!! We should all get after HP to distribute a softpaq update and no more delays.

 

HP Total Care Advisor is nothing special. I don't even use it. There's no point to it. No need for it.

 

I know you are right, since HP Update does do the job. But I just don't like the HP is sidestepping their responsibility to provide the Customer with software updates and support for a product that came factory installed on the system.

 

The instructions to install it on your PC is included in the compressed WinRAR file. Basically, all you have to do is copy the Total Care Advisor folder to your Program Files, then create a shortcut to the executable file on your desktop. Unfortunately, you cannot restore all of the features of Total Care Advisor using this method, such as TCA's Yahoo Toolbar seach, or the HP button in your browser that points to TCA.

 

Hi,

With the constant increase of HP Total Care Advisor Issues, I have posted the Utility for everyone & can be downloaded from this link.

I have also noticed that previous links for HP Total Care Advisor are being removed or not working any more. You can still download the latest version of HP Total Care Advisior (Vista Edition) from this link.

http://tinyurl.com/6rz57y

 

Hi,

With the constant increase of HP Total Care Advisor Issues, I have posted the Utility for everyone & can be downloaded from this link.

I have also noticed that previous links for HP Total Care Advisor are being removed or not working any more. You can still download the latest version of HP Total Care Advisior (Vista Edition) from this link.

http://tinyurl.com/6rz57y

 

Actually a much more current Vista version is 1.4.19.2433 (10/1/2007) and it is far superior to the older version referenced in this discussion. If anyone needs it, just give me a host site and I will upload it as a compressed RAR file.

 

I dont want to create polemic, but I've found that software pretty useless IMO.

 

Question for ppl who have posted it before: So if I want to keep the TCA for after clean install, should I just save a Winrar copy of the TCA folder under Program Files, and later copy it to its original location after clean install?

 

Is there an updated version to this? I wish stupid HP would just put it on their website. I mean only HP users would benefit from this anyway.

 

I just manually check the website and see whats up. I mean you would ideally only need to install newer version software if it fixed something for you or had performance improvements

 

You really shouldn't lumber unless with that much of a bad wrap!

The only good thing involved with HP Total Care Advisor is the help and support the rest is a waste of HDD.

While it inhabited my digital world, I had to deal with it every other day and that stupid $%#@^& HP Active Support Library which show as needing attention constantly, was never able to be update using HP updater. So I'd delete it and reinstall it from HP support & drivers only for it to need attention a few days down the road and more importantly I never found out what it's function was?

HP updater. HP Active Support Library HP Total Care Advisor HP Photo Essentials, DELETED, in fact near all of HP's software package is no more and the only difference that I can tell, I'm not needing to deal with it's time wasting peculiarities.
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Can anyone post the latest version of HP Total Care Advisor 2.3.4292.2709. Thanks a lot