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    What's up with all of these Asus utilities?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by stallen, Dec 24, 2008.

  1. stallen

    stallen Thinkpad Woody

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    Hey Guys...

    I just made the switch from a Lenovo T61 to an ASUS N80Vn-Gp011. My first impression of the N80Vn is really good. I love the LCD LED. However, I miss the Thinkpad keyboard. Anyway...

    I just upgraded my HDD to a WD 7200 RPM. I noticed that I have a TON of optional Asus utilities available on my driver CD. I installed about half of the utilities I thought I might use. The other half I'm not sure about.

    I attached a screenshot. You can see which ones I chose not to install as those are unchecked. I also avoided Norton AV Trial.

    I couldn't find anything on the asus website that descibes all of these utilities. Am I missing something? Has anyone here put anything together? I'd like to install any utilities that I really might use, but I prefer to avoid things that are big resource hogs.

    Anyone got any info for me?

    Merry Christmas!!!!
     

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  2. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    You should get rid of live update. It's a very buggy utility and doesn't always work. I'd personally could also do without checkmail, mult, lifeframe, splendid and smart logon but these are personal choices.
     
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    stallen Thinkpad Woody

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    Thanks for the response David.

    I don't see "checkmail". Is their another name for that?

    I figured live update might be a problem. Lenovo's version of lie update was always very buggy as well.

    Do you trust windows update when it comes to driver suggestions?
     
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    Try "chkmail". I would only use windows update for everything but drivers recommendstion updates. ;)
     
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