How to fix windows installer trayapp.msi

Wasn't suprised by that really as it appears that this error is being caused by something that hasn't been properly removed when I unistalled the old Photosmart printer drivers. Hope this helps, and have a great day!

Following your first link and downloading the driver for the old printer Photosmart which I've saved to a specific folder - this is just one. Is it safe to use the installation CD that came with the new printer - I don't want to uninstall anything related to the new one as it all works perfectly?

That seems to have worked, thanks for the help. My computer started showing the "missing TrayApp. I have run the HP Print and Scan Doctor, and it found nothing wrong with either the print or scan functions.

Indeed, the machine does print and scan. But this error message is really, really annoying. I have no idea what the TrayApp. At about the same time I installed the additional software for the HP , I uninstalled software for a previous printer I had linked to the computer.

Until yesterday, the basic software for both HP printers was on the computer. But the did not work fully without the installation of additional programs. It was after I installed them that I started getting the error message. But now the printer will print from the printer screen, which it would not do previously.

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Level 1. Message 1 of Missing TrayApp. HP Recommended. Message 2 of Tags 1. Tags: FirstContact. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Message 3 of Richard Pickwoad. Message 4 of Hello Richard, At this point, you will need to repair, or install the trayapp software. From the desktop screen 1. After this, try installing the software again.

One of the problems that has come up several times in the forums is this: you turn on your PC and an installation program starts up and asks for a file called trayapp. So you have to cancel out of the installation program. Every time you restart Windows, the same box comes up, and it is quite annoying! It might be a scanner, printer, camera, or a multi-function printer.

Sometimes the software gets screwed up so that it asks for this photogallery. TrayApp is a software application that is installed with software that is needed for HP printer products used with a computer system. This error occurs because either the installation of the program never completed or because one of its files has been removed from the registry.

To correct this issue and remove the trayapp. If you have installed HP software on your computer, try the steps listed in the following article:. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. I have been irritated for some time by the TrayApp. At last I decided to do something about it - and found your message. Well as the printer was not working I decided to remove it.

Well that took me considerable time, and several reboots. I removed all the multitude of HP programs from my Control Panel - remove programs option - after deleting the two HP printers that installation had installed for me. I am now happy to say that the TrayApp. I would like to say that I am unhappy about the situation.

I feel that HP needs to give a more informative error message. The situation seemed to me that I had been attacked by a virus. I am left with a nasty taste in my mouth, and certainly will not install any further HP drivers or appliances on my computers.

I feel that their software behaved in a malicious way. Incidentally, I have noticed a real improvement in my computer performance since removing all the HP printer software. Frede Uhrskov. In reply to Divya R's post on May 15, MSI is missing.