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    problem shutting down

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by hotsizzle, Jun 23, 2007.

  1. hotsizzle

    hotsizzle Notebook Enthusiast

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    everytime i shut down it stops and tells me that asusmultiframe and atksod are still running. is there anyway i can get rid of that?
     
    hotsizzle, Jun 23, 2007
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Well, if you dont need ASUS MultiFrame then you can just prevent if from starting from msconfig / Startup. Or plainly uninstall it.

    ATKOsd is more problematic. It has to do with the Fn+F* hotkeys. I'm not sure they can work without ATKOsd started.

    You can try reinstalling the ATK Driver and Utility, see if gets rid of the problem.
     
    E.B.E., Jun 23, 2007
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    hotsizzle Notebook Enthusiast

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    what exactly is asus multiframe for? is there a reason why it started doing that?
     
    hotsizzle, Jun 24, 2007
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    Multiframe puts the squares icon next to the x on the upper right there. It allows you to resize that window quickly, ie to the left, right, top, bottom. I like it. I had uninstalled it because it kept doing what it's doing to your computer. It only does that once in a while now. I just live with it as it's pretty useful. You can try ccleaner, but I'm not sure it'll help much.
     
    obsolete, Jun 24, 2007
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    lenardg Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    I liked multiframe very much. However, for me multiframe started eating up handles after awhile (Vista). Sometimes it had like 100000 (one hundred thousand) handles open and just kept opening them. Happened every time I ran it. It worked for about an hour, then it started opening handles like crazy.
     
    lenardg, Jun 24, 2007
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    hotsizzle Notebook Enthusiast

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    what are handles? and do you know what atkosd is?
     
    hotsizzle, Jun 24, 2007
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    Do not remove ATKOSD, it is related to showing the icons of volume/brightness changing up and down etc. on the screen when you press the hotbuttons; it might have other functions as well.
     
    E.B.E., Jun 25, 2007
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