How to prevent OS X update from updating the HP printer drivers?

Question

Dear all,
I am using a HP Photosmart C6180 All-In-One printer and scanner system together with my Mac (OS X 10.5.7). Well - after repeated problems with this products I realized that the automatic updates of the HP driver by OS X is the problem - since I finally realized that the scanner always refused to work after updating the software to the so-called current version. Well, of course I know that I can switch the updates to "manually approve" and uncheck the box next to the HP driver in order to prevent the problem - however, it has also happened several times that I forgot to uncheck - and then I had to go through the long uninstall-reinstall older version-process (the HP driver has approx. 200 MB...!).
So I began wondering whether it might be possible to prevent OS X auto-update from updating this one driver only - is it possible to create an exception list for OS X auto update???
Thanks in advance for considering my question!
With kind regards,
Björn

Answer 1

Hey!
I see, I see! Well, after all, for 40 years after school - not bad! I had, among other languages, Russian in school for 3 years (I thought it was cool...) - that's ten years ago, but I wouldn't even dare to try to speak that nowadays (my group leader at the institute was Russian - she wanted me to try and say something in Russian - with a smile of expectation in her face... I didn't dare...).
Well, the German in Bavaria (Munich and around) may be a bit softer or less formal - for me it is hard to appreciate that... I considered Russian much more formal than German (and the other languages I learnt - English, French - probably with the exception of Latin...) - many more cases, complicated so-called "aspects" in the verbs (I never completely understood that...) and so on. Well, after all, I learnt German as my first language - and that made it much easier for me than any other language I tried to learn later :-D
But it is funny - when I began to learn English in school (which was when I was ten years old), I found it quite easy at the beginning, since much of the structure of sentences etc. has some relation to German, and especially to the dialect from the area where my grandmother comes from (which is the area from where the anglo-saxonians moved to England in the early middle-ages) - the area is still today called "Angeln" in German (probably sth. like "Anglia"); I heard my grandmother and my great-grandmother talk in that dialect. Although it is said that only approx. 10 % of the English language stems from that origin, and many more words came to the language from French and other origins - it appears to me that the basis of sentences (such as pronouns, articles, important auxiliaries and verbs etc. - and the structure) stems from the anglo-saxonian origin - and the other 90 % then make up the wealth of vocabulary (English is known for its wealth of synonyms and words that differ only by a nuance).
Well... :-D We're getting off-topic, I'm afraid. But the good thing is, I have never seen any board moderator or other guest here in the Apple forum complain
Kind regards!
Björn