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    Aero15x OSD Disable

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by charlie22911, Apr 13, 2019.

  1. charlie22911

    charlie22911 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The new smart manager OSD was driving me crazy, and unfortunately the old trick doesn't fix it.
    The OSD is now handled by OSDwindow.exe in "C:\Program Files\SmartManagerV4\OSD".

    I've decompiled this executable and made some changes to it so that the OSD no longer shows on my 2018 Aero15x. I figured I would share the fruits of my labor with you guys:
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1En5F2PyrIMvGZhcNoYedYBPBg6o-dUct

    Both the compiled binary and the source code are included for the sake of transparency.

    To use it:
    - Make sure you kill "OSDwindow" in task manager.
    - Navigate to C:\Program Files\SmartManagerV4\OSD
    - Rename the old OSDwindow.exe to OSDwindow.exe.bak
    - Copy the replacement executable from the bin directory in the zip file
    - Re-launch the new executable

    As always, this is at your own risk. I make no guarantee that this will work for any device other than the 2018 Aero 15x that I'm currently using.

    Cheers!

    EDIT:
    VirusTotal scan for the paranoid:
    https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/e3...cbc3bf19709b09d3ec3f3b6bc721a3fbff5/detection
     
    charlie22911, Apr 13, 2019
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