On my first three attempts apparently it gave up after trying those for about 5 minutes - and on the 4th attempt somehow it succeeded. It seems that something in the network code here isn't playing nicely with Windows 10 1903, is failing repeatedly, and then sleeping for ~1sec before trying again. This goes on and on and on - and each 'cycle' of these (two cycles pasted, but there are dozens) takes one second (as is evident from the timestamps - 0, 22:29:30, and then 0, 22:29:31, etc. Whether it was coincidental or not - I'm not sure.
Interestingly, very shortly after I added these - the installation process continued (after previously failing 3 times in a row). I added the loggung directives after noticing that the HP installer was repeatedly trying to query this key to no avail.
I did manage to finally get it to work at the 4th attempt - and only after I added HP logging directives to the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HP\NG\Logging). So this is definitely not a case of remnants of a messy installation, outdated drivers or something of the sort. I downloaded the latest drivers for the HP OfficeJet 8620 from the HP website (as of July 2, 2019).
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This is a brand new install of Windows 10 1903, 100% clean - never had any form of printer drivers on it beforehand - from HP or any other vendor. They always fail with failing to find a printer - after 5-10 minutes of searching. The summary is that installation of the 8620 drivers fail - repeatedly - to find a printer during setup. However, given that this thread is marked as 'solved' (even though it was only worked-around), I'm bringing this up as a new top level thread. I posted about my issue in a reply on this thread:
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