Samsung Programs/Utilities

A quick handy explanation of the various programs (in case you are doing a fresh install and want to select your bloatware poison):

1. Easy Display Manager
- TV style controls (e.g. increase in volume)
2. Samsung Update Plus
- automatic update of samsung drivers/software
3. Easy Network Manager
- network settings
4. Easy Battery Manager
- power managerment
5. Samsung Magic Doctor
- diagnostics
6. Easy Speedup Manager
- performance manager
7. Samsung Recovery Solution II
- recover from hidden partition
8. Play Camera for NP
- integrated camera
9. Play AVStation
- multimedia utility
10. Play AVNow
- pre-boot multimedia utility

 

I don't know how about others, but out of these ten, I have only found useful two: Display Manager and the MagicKeyboard utility...
OOppps, Magic keyboard was not even mentioned

 

Easy Battery Manager and Easy Speedup Manager can also be useful.

The driver / utility CD should also include the Cyberlink DVD suite. This includes not only PowerDVD but also a whole set of DVD-related programs including burning software. However, in my experience you can't choose what you want on installation but have to do the default install then remove the bits you don't want. I recall the factory image installation includes PowerDVD but not the other members of this suite.

John

 

Sorry it seems I don't have the magickeyboard utility? Doesn't matter, please add if you like. I just want people to have a list of samsung utilities so that they can choose which ones they need and not install any bloatware...

 

What does Easy battery Manager do? Can I tell it to charge/discharge my battery based on percentages and such?

 

Its merely an application that has some additional options for battery management, it pretty much duplicates Windows Function but is a nice to view format.

One of the least used but most powerful tools Samsung Provides, and similar to paid for packages. People don't realise you can actually add to the recovery section, so you setup initial Windows, install all your apps, email, settings, drivers etc.. then boot into Recovery and save all the settings on the hidden partition.

If windows goes Boom, you have the option of using the Pre-Boot to recover your Drive with a configured environment available.

 

Thats good to know ThreeStar, thanks for that.

 

Good point about the recovery software, although the instructions are in a separate manual and don't get much attention (and not available on-line last time I looked).

John