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Call HP and ask them how to continue with these HP apps you want after doing a clean install Upgrade to Win7.
Millions of their customers are going to be in this position, so I doubt they are going try their usual tact of saying you have to use their bloatware recovery disks. They will probably have app disks available in this case.
If not, I have taken these HP utilities off of dozens of HP machines and they were never missed. They are bloatware that duplicates poorly the tools already built into Win7.
One other thing, if your machine is still under warranty and your manufacturer insists they will not support a clean install of Win7 (or Vista), just go ahead and do it but do not tell them because it might void your tech support (not hardware) warranty. And have your recovery disks with their bloatware available in case you have to restore it long enough to get their support on any hardware replacement.