HP Support Assistant not downloading and installing

Hi, I got a brand new ZBook 15 G2 a few days ago, everything seems to work OK except for the HP software that came with it, which I find both ironic and frustrating. I've tried downloading the updates and installing on two occasions, no luck. Windows Updates work fine, along with my other software's updates, so it's not my connection or internet related. No matter what I do (selecting all, just one, restarting), I keep getting the below even after it seemed to have downloaded the updates:
BTW, I think it is poor design not to show the user how much of the download has been downloaded, a progress bar doesn't cut it, one needs to see a percentage or better yet, something like "25.6 of 157 MB downloaded", preferably with the time elapsed so that you can gauge how long it's going to take. Or just give us the links to the updates so we can download it ourselves.
Is HP Support Assistant required, or can I uninstall it? At this stage it's not serving any purpose other than taking up space on my PC and annoying the hell out of me. I apologise for my negative tone, but I didn't expect to struggle with software coming from a reputable company like HP, especially after paying premium bucks for my ZBook.
Regards,
Will

Hi Will,
You can either uninstall it completely from Control Panel & then reinstall to check if the problem was with the HP support assistant software version installed in your laptop:
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=6978815&swItemId=ob_144416_1&swEnvOid=405...
Else from here:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/hpsupportassistant/hpsupport.html?jumpid=va_r602_us/en/any/psg/pl...
Or
Completely uninstall it, use your HP support site to get all all the latest versions of drivers & softwares.
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=6978815&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4059
As far as I see it, HP support assistant helps me to chat with the Technical support automatically and nothing else. For everything else I use my support page.
If you're not uninstalling it, I suggest you change the settings of it to "Notify" of any update and NOT allow it to install anything automatically.
Regards
Visruth
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