empowering software

Has anyone tried to run Acer without using their empowering utility? I am curious as to the performance without it, since you can't control CPU speed, optimize, and what not. I have been playing around with services, and i find that acer hogs up like 10 or so services. Removing these would lower my processes to around 40, which is close to the performance of a clean install copy of xp.

 

it has little benefit.

 

I uninstalled it as soon as i got the laptop. Pentium M has speed step which alters my CPU speed as it wishes, and when on battery I just use RightMark CPU utility to get the most out the battery.
I disable Wi-Fi and PCMCI slot in control panel full time as I have no use for it, and I can control monitor brightness via they keyboard. Plus with the Acer software Hibernate is permanently turned on which takes up 1gb of HDD space.

 

I have uninstalled Acer's utilities, except eRecovery, and the computer seems to speed up a lot. I downloaded AMD's own cpu drivers to automate speed. It seems to be working perfectly. My processes have jumped from 64 to 49.

 

I only use the power manager to have the profiles that I created, but the performance of the computer is controlled by NHC. All the aplicationsof the empowering software is not in use.
I'm thinking of unisntalling it and only use NHC, because if deltafx1942 says that processes low it'll be good

 

Guys, so has anyone figured out if the eRecovery stuff works even if the partitions are converted to NTFS? someone said to me that it may not work as Native DOS cannot access NTFS partitions. Unless Acer has some built in tool/workaround for that, am not sure if it will work!
I mean, we all know Fat32 sucks !

 

Hey, don't worry. I was looking at the included software, and found that NTI Backup Now! 4 can recover from boot. Try that and see. They have lots of options for recovery, including drive image and file restore.

ahidalgo, my processes jumped not only because i uninstalled empowering. I also used NBR's notebook optimizing guide and stopped some processes, startup stuff, etc.

 

I was willing to remove most of the empowering stuff when i just got my Aspire 5672WLMi, but I thought I'd wait just in case.
I found out that the power manager works reasonably well, so I think it will stay. But I do want to remove all the other useless stuff. One of the things that worries me is the recovery manager. If i remove it, if i ever want to use the backup disk it generated the first time i turned my notebook on, will i have a way to use it? (if only reinstalling it?)

 

it's not possible to remove eRecovery, so you don't have to worry. The uninstall just takes out the other stuff.

 

I reinstalled system almost in the beginning. I don?t need any empowering program. Usage of processor MHz is automatic controlled by AMD CPU drivers. Usage of power is controlled by NHC. Backup and recovery is job of Norton Ghost.

 

i use it
i like acer enetmaneger to connect to wi-fi
i also use other empoering technolgy
but downloaded the newest version it's nice version