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    C90s...what is "AI Gear Help" running all the time?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by theZoid, Oct 17, 2007.

  1. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    AI Gear Help is running all the time in task manager applications, and I'm trying to find out if it needs to be. Is this turbo gear help?

    thanks
     
    theZoid, Oct 17, 2007
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  2. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

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    hmm try this and see if it fixes it

    Click your Start menu --> Run --> type "msconfig" --> click the startup tab --> uncheck the wbctlvga
     
    vinceboiii, Oct 18, 2007
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  3. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    I can't see that one listed in startup items.
     
    theZoid, Oct 18, 2007
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Don't you find anything in msconfig that looks (from the filename description etc. )like AI gear help?
    In WinXP there is the jv16 power tools which offers more verbose descriptions of the starting programs. But I'm not sure the free version works in Vista cause it's quite old. Maybe CCleaner does it? See also Flamenco's Top Vista Tweaks thread for suggestions of software for registry and startup handling.

    Also check the services list. (control panel / admin tools / services)
     
    E.B.E., Oct 18, 2007
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  5. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    What is the program tho?? I saw it too when I was optimising the other day I didnt turn it off since it was not using any resources really and didnt want to mess with turbo gear stuff. I guess just a help file being preloaded?
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 18, 2007
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  6. Sgt. Hollywood

    Sgt. Hollywood Notebook Evangelist

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    Without having GearHelp.exe running and as a msconfig startup key, my OC hotkey became disabled. Reselecting it corrected the OC hot key.

    wbctlvga is for the asus enhanced vga driver
     
    Sgt. Hollywood, Oct 18, 2007
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  7. Patrick

    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    AIGearHelp is The Turbogear OSD.
     
    Patrick, Oct 18, 2007
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    Thanks....that's exactly what I thought it was, but have not had time today to disable and check it...
     
    theZoid, Oct 19, 2007
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    All of the OSD's exluding turbo gear maybe, are shown via the ATKOSD.exe process
     
    freelance, Oct 22, 2007
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