Removing Printer Folders + Avtivity Monitor

Question

I have drivers for both my Lexmark P915 printer, Epson Perfection 1250 Scanner up to 10.6, will continue to use these peripherals, no intention of changing. In the Activity Monitor, (I have completely removed OS9), I notice the following Process:
HP IO Classic Proxy
HP IO Classic Proxy 2
HP Event Handler
Obviously, I don't require these, can I just quit these processes, will that delete them permanently.
Also, when I click on my main drive, then Library, there is a Printer folder. Within that folder, there are many folders with the names of printer manufacturers, some of them empty, the others, specifically the HP folder takes up 231mb of space. Can I just keep the main Printer folder but trash all the other Printer Manufacturer folders in it as I will never use them? Thanks, Ken.

Answer 1

Hey BD Aqua, took me awhile to play with this, gave me a lot of problems, made the Activity Monitor almost useless, lost most of my icons in the menubar, can't get them back (eg: clock, fax status, Sophos icon). I check on them in System Preferences but they won't appear, actually a blessing in disguise. I put all the contents of the printer folder in the trash, then empty the trash. This, however, took my Lexmark P915 printer driver with, so I re-installed the printer driver, works perfectly again, now the only printer folder left. Sophos told me how to extract the server icon from the program folder, copied it to the desktop, so that when I click on it, the icon appears in the menubar until I shut down my computer, can do the updates from the menubar (of course Sophos is always running in the BG, by the way Sophos is working great!!). For the clock + calendar, I got 2 free programs, MagiCal for Tiger, great program which shows the day/date in the menubar (if you click on the icon opens the calendar, click on a day, opens iCal). For the clock I got Lovers Clock, which after setting, shows the time in my area. The Fax icon is of no concern because I never fax. I also took Spotlight off the menubar so everything is lean, more efficient. I have also been running Monolingual, so along with deleting the printers I have gone from 400,000 files + 100,000 folders to 146,000 files + 26,000 folders, so much less strain for the main drive. So things work out sometimes. Ken.