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    Samsung Easy Settings - Slow?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by pilotrose, Mar 9, 2012.

  1. pilotrose

    pilotrose Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a Samsung NP700Z5A-S04US and I love it. But one thing that has been bothering me is how slow the "Samsung Easy Settings" program is to load.

    If I want to toggle wifi on or off, or something like that, it'll open up the program, but it typically takes 3-5 seconds to load which is pretty annoying.

    So I'm just curious if other people with similar laptops using this app experience the same?

    Thanks!
     
    pilotrose, Mar 9, 2012
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    matthewf123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, yes, god yes!

    Turning Wifi on/off using the keyboard hotkey could be so simple -- I want the light to blink on or off, and just leave it at that. But all it does is launch Easy Settings' Wifi tab, which takes at LEAST 10 seconds to fully load. Terrible!

    Hoping my impending SSD upgrade will rectify this slightly, we'll see.
     
    matthewf123, Mar 9, 2012
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    sean.e Notebook Consultant

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    confirmed.
     
    sean.e, Mar 9, 2012
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  4. pilotrose

    pilotrose Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any workarounds? If you uninstall the software, is there alternative software we can use, or are we forced to use this rather slow software?
     
    pilotrose, Mar 9, 2012
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  5. matthewf123

    matthewf123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, to make deeper settings adjustments I can tolerate the wait for launching easy settings... but the app loads faster if you launch easy settings (fn F2) than if you toggle wifi directly (fn F12)
    Intel's My Wifi app running in the tray has an option to turn on/off the wifi radio, but it doesnt seem to sync with the Easy Settings on.off state so I cant tell if its completely powering off the wifi module or not.
     
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  6. pilotrose

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    Yeah it does seem to load just a tad bit faster if you load the easy settings rather than going directly to the wifi in easy settings.

    Hmmmm
     
    pilotrose, Mar 9, 2012
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    Wow...I thought my laptop had an issue. Glad its being tracked.

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
     
    psycho2097, Mar 9, 2012
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    I think it's does not stay loaded in background. This could be reason why since you have to load it up every time.
     
    XtremeProject, Mar 10, 2012
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    Any way to force the program to stay loaded in the background?
     
    pilotrose, Mar 10, 2012
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    For me, the real problem is that it takes so much time to load to turn down the volume. That is something that should be close to instantaneous. You don't want to wake the house up.
     
    jw1001, Mar 11, 2012
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    Volume works via Fn+F6,F7,F8 for me without opening Easy Settings. Do you have dmhkcore.exe running?
     
    sean.e, Mar 11, 2012
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    SSD upgrade complete.

    OK, yes --- now launching Easy Settings wifi control using FN F12 is much faster.

    Still not instant, and still annoying that the key combo doesnt DIRECTLY toggle the setting on/off for me, and instead just shows you the setting... but better than before.
     
    matthewf123, Mar 12, 2012
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    Yeah most of the FN functions, well, all of them that do not open the Easy Settings program are very quick if not instant. The Easy Settings link, and wifi on/off are the two that are slow, because they load the program.

    Basically I think everyone, including myself, would like a quick toggle of all wireless off, wifi on with bluetooth off, wifi off and bluetooth off, bluetooth on and wifi off. Most computers have that sort of setup.

    Since we don't have a manual switch to turn on/off the wifi, it'd be nice to have a better software/FN solution.
     
    pilotrose, Mar 14, 2012
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  14. Sir Punk

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    it's easy guys, just forget about the easy settings and put a shortcut on your desktop to your Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections.
    and you can do the same with Bluetooth. But yes it's annoying because on mine even the brightness adjustment lags.
     
    Sir Punk, Mar 14, 2012
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  15. turn8

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    this easy settings app is garbage if you plan on running your own monitor calibration since the app takes over color profiles and changes them on boot up.

    my only option to get it to stop was to uninstall it, if i need to change something i guess i am out of luck.
     
    turn8, Apr 3, 2012
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