How to Fix HP Smart "Scanning is Currently Unavailable" Issue on Windows 11/10

Here is a quick video to fix the "scanning is currently unavailable" issue you see while scanning pages on HP Smart.
The issue can be fixed in a couple of steps, but their official post suggests removing the software and drivers, which is a tedious process. Hope it helps.
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After a month, I needed the same video to fix the issue again on my computer. LOL

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It worked simply without re-installing the software. Thanks for making life easy.

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Finally fixed! I had gone through HP, Microsoft and no one could help. Thank you!

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This was ridiculously easier than the rabbit hole that HP sent me down!! Thank you so much. I realllllllly needed to scan this asap. Life saver, you have no idea.

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Thank you for making this video!!! It sounded quite drastic to remove a printer, but I had nothing to lose and tried your method. It worked! Thank you 👏

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Suddenly the scanning got disabled and i got frustrated. Your video was a blessing.😍

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I had same issue. I followed your steps it works again.

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It's 3:05 AM and I have worksheets to submit. So glad I FINALLY found a decent tutorial for why HP smart and other HP software couldn't talk to my printer despite being able to do everything EXCEPT scanning related features. Thank you!!!

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Your suggestion works. I don't know how such a big company HP cannot make changes in the software.

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Great Video! And thank you! Unreal the problems this issue led me to. And now I'm so glad I found this!

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Thanks, it do helps me in the middle of scanning my documents.

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It didn’t work for me.

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Really Helpful, I was able to resolve my issue on my HP Smart. Thank you so much.

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I was about to order a new printer. Thank you!! HP guides were no help.

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I did not find hp smart in task manager, but it still worked for me. thanks for posting

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I know this and old video but thank you, thank you, thank you. I had a document that needed scanning and sent right away. Your solution worked

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Worked for me. Thanks!

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Wow... I was really desperated to solve that issue because I needed it to work. Thanks a lot man!

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went exactly as you said. Thank you, sir.

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I am giving this a try now wish me luck after rebooting everything several times

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not working. HP Smart now says that the printer is offline :(

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This is an older video at this point, so maybe that has something to do with the fact that this did not work for me.

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Easy done