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    Which programs to get rid of?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by p1mp3rn3l, Jul 12, 2007.

  1. p1mp3rn3l

    p1mp3rn3l Notebook Enthusiast

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    Right now my asus g1s has 70 processes and thats with out me actually installing any other programs..
    So what programs (bloatware) should i get rid of, and how should i go about getting the amount of processes down?

    If i am not making sense i apologize, kind of late =\
     
    p1mp3rn3l, Jul 12, 2007
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    Check out this site (left column, either Vista or XP processes) for help/advice about what to do with your processes.

    To rid your machine of unwanted programs go to Start->Run, then type msconfig, click Programs (might be Startup Programs - I'm typing from memory on a Linux machine) and then uncheck unnecessary startup programs.

    If you're familiar enough with the processes on your machine, you can just, again, go to Start->Run, type services.msc and uncheck those which you don't want.
     
    bmwrob, Jul 12, 2007
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  3. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    You should search, there is usually at least 1 new topic per day with the exact same subject.
     
    E.B.E., Jul 12, 2007
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  4. p1mp3rn3l

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    Eh owell thanks for the info, thats all i needed..
     
    p1mp3rn3l, Jul 12, 2007
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  5. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Remove ASUS LiveUpdate, definitely. Known to eat up the memory of the computer slowly but surely until you kill it or restart.
    Remove Norton AV, it's a resource hog, use something lighter like AVG.
    Remove ASUS Data Security Manager if you have one, it is known to cause stutterring issues.
    Remove ASUS LifeFrame, it is pretty useless to most and has issues with some games.
    Possibly remove ASUS Wireless Console, not very useful (mostly duplicates the function of the wireless and bluetooth hotbuttons).

    Also look through the other ASUS utilities, in my opinions all of them are pretty useless except for Power4Gear which many people use because it's convenient. But it also has bugs sometimes and behaves unintuitively for some power profiles.

    And also check my guide: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=81741
    namely the Cleaning up starting programs, and services sections. Might be useful in Vista as well, although it's written for XP
     
    E.B.E., Jul 12, 2007
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  6. System64

    System64 Windows 7 x64

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    Time to make another sticky :D

    Asus bloatware - what to terminate.
     
    System64, Jul 12, 2007
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  7. p1mp3rn3l

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    And i will blindly follow =)
     
    p1mp3rn3l, Jul 14, 2007
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