Express Gate and some Q's

Hello all. First off, i would like to welcome myself to the G73 community. I know there has been some issues with these laptops but fortunately ive been one of the few who actually had no significant issues (gsod, etc..). Thanks to the quick fixes and the support of the community and asus, im confident i wont come across these issues..but I do have some minor issues i hope can be solved;

1.Whenever i shut down and restart my laptop the first thing i get on the screen prior to the Asus logo is an Express Gate error. It basically says that Express gate didnt boot since its not Installed or Incomplete. So..how do i go about fixing this? Can i get an official download link? I tried googling but its all downloadable from unknown websites and versions as old as 2008's.

2.Sometimes my hotkeys dont work at all. Ive disables the startup run of ATKOSD2.exe and DMEDIA.exe. Does this have something to do with it?

3.I was wondering if i should be shutting down the laptop everyday overnight?

4.Will having my laptop plugged in the charger practically 24/7 affect/decrease overall battery life?

 

Here ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support- I don't know what the issue is, but a reinstall should work.

u mean the f1-f12 keys? You need to hold down FN to use those.

I haven't turned off my laptop for weeks now. No problems here

Always keep your laptop plugged in as much as you can. Your battery life will last longer. You can google up info on lithium batteries for more info if you want.

Hope that helps.

 

ATKOSD and ATKOSD2 are needed for your hotkeys to work, I think stands for AsusTeK something... but yeah, those two are needed for the Fn hotkey functionality

And I just tested this, the DMEDIA.exe is for the ATK multimedia hotkeys, which I think is essentially just the Fn + Arrow Keys, which brings up a useless Windows Media interface. You are fine killing that, since it seems it's only crucial for the Fn + Arrow key hotkeys to work (volume works fine)

 

ATKOSD2 is just for the 3d graphic overlay, you can get rid of it. The hotkeys just require atk hotkey, atkacpi/atk0100 and atk media. See: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/380681-asus-utility-bloatware-guide.html

 

Ah, my mistake