Toolbox Download

Press Cntrl+Alt+Del: Start Task Manager, go to the Applications tab and stop the installation.

Then you take the CD out, go into the newly created folder c:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard and there you MAKE A COPY (very important because they will disappear after reboot) of the sub-folders CLJ1500 and (it's optional) Animations (not very useful but it will disappear either). To make a copy of these two folders, you click on them and do a CTRL-C (or right-click COPY) THEN you click on a blank space and do a CTRL-V (or right-click PASTE). A new folder will appear called either "copy of CLJ1500" or "CLJ1500 - copy". Same for the folder "Animations".

Then you reboot the machine, go back to the Hewlett-Packard subfolder and there you will notice that the two aforementioned subfolders have indeed disappeared. No problem, you RENAME "copy of CLJ1500" CLJ1500, same for "copy of Animations". This is because the install software stopped at about 90% : Win7 believes the installation has been cancelled and erase these folders (or something like that anyway).

Then you go into CLJ1500, go into the subfolder called TOOLBOX, right-click on the internet-shortcut "toolbox" and choose "Send to Deskop - Create shortcut".

Then you go back onto your desktop, right-click on the newly-created icon, click on "Properties", "Change icon" and there you go back into Program Files\Hewlet-Packard\CLJ1500\Toolbox to choose the proper icon for that.

Important: to have it functioning, you first need to start your printer, second, you need to launch HPPOUMUI.EXE that finds itself into the toolbox subfolder. Right-click on it to create an new icon on your desktop. And third, now you can click on toolbox to check the toner level (but not before having launched HPPOUMUI.EXE and started your HP Color LaserJet 1500 printer first). Voilà.