How to remove IntelliMemory from SW updates?

Ok, I uninstalled IntelliMemory day one on my AB9. But everyday I get a SW update reminder that I should install it again. Its starting to get annoying. Is there anyway other then uninstalling SW update altogether to rid IntelliMemory from SW update? Or at least turn off the balloon notifications from SW update?

 

Customize the notification area icons to set S Agent properties to "Hide icon and notifications".

I manually run SW Update every few days to see if anything new has appeared.

John

 

Ok.. thanks for that one.. plus one rep!

 

A more comprehensive fix to totally remove the warnings and the icon from system tray (and free up a tiny bit of resources) is to go to Task Scheduler and disable the SAgent task.

Task Scheduler can be found by going to start, type in task scheduler, click settings and open it from there (assuming you're on windows 8).
Simply right click SAgent and choose disable.

After a reboot, this totally disables the SAgent process from running, removes all the popup messages and the tray icon. You might find it reappears if SW Update is updated to a new version. Simply disable it again in task scheduler.

Manually check SW Update to check for updates in future.

 

The program itself is called "Task Scheduler" but for some reason when I try to find it (Win + F) it doesn't find it. When I type in "Task Scheduler" there are zero hits (which was stupid of Microsoft). Instead I searched for "schedule tasks" which brings up 1 hit in "settings" which is for Task Scheduler

 

info on removal IntelliMemory by Condusiv Technologies - Should I Remove It?

but curious is it really causing performance issues ? if it's like linux, data caching in memory is still faster than disk even faster than SSD disks !

edit:

Okay reading up on Intellimemory it acts pretty much like Linux memory management, with dynamic caching so when other apps require memory, Intellimemory can give back the memory it has held onto to the other app. Well that's what I see from basic AID64 memory test where i tested 8x thread 1GB = ~8GB on my Samsung ATIV Book 8.

Looked at memory available before, during and after AID64 test and as you can see Intellimemory gave back 2.9GB of memory (8.7-5.9GB) after AID64 ran. So I suspect you'd get better performance with Intellimemory left enabled ?? Anyone got proof to the contrary ?

Idle before AID64 run


Allocate 8 threads x 1GB = 8GB


During load test only 640MB available


Post-load idle - Intellimemory released memory and now 8.7GB available





WEI http://imgur.com/K8adKSD

Processor: 7.8
Memory: 7.8
Graphics: 7.0
Gaming Graphics: 7.0
Primary hard disk: 8.1

Samsung Intellimemory still enabled.

 

I have a Samsung Ativ Book 8, upgraded to 16GB RAM. Never thought I would actually use all 16GB or RAM even with all the VM's that I run. I did a double take when I saw the task manager showing >60% RAM usage.

According to task manager, my applications collectively add up to around 1.2GB, I was surprised then when ~30 seconds after booting Task manager memory usage jumps straight up to around 10GB. About 2 GB of that is applications and system, the remaining 8GB shows as "Non-paged pool" and task manager doesn't list it against any particular process (even when running task manager as administrator).

Googling around and trying to find answers out here on the vast interweb started by suggesting memory leaks in the ATI graphics, and a host of other applications. I'm very happy to have found this post with a decent explanation of what is going on. I disabled the intellimemory service and rebooted to find no significant memory consumed after boot. I've downloaded and tried AID64 and it happily allocates 8x 1G threads in the stability test. I will now try again with intellimemory enabled at boot to see if it plays nice and releases it when needed.

I understand the principle of a program that looks for commonly used things and caches files before they are needed, but is it really realistic to use 8GB of RAM for intelligent caching? Does anyone think this is worthwhile keeping on my system, especially now seeing as I have a 512GB SSD

 

You can just uninstall IntelliMemory (using the Programs & Features control panel) instead of disabling the service. Some users will see benefit from its using free memory for caching (although Windows does some of that on its on). Other users will suffer from it's background processing and constant attempts at predicting and caching files it expects you will need.

You will find huge amounts of discussion about it in the Owners Lounge thread for your model, linked below:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sam...unge-np770z5e-np780z5e-np870z5e-np880z5e.html

 

Thanks,

I have ridiculous amounts of RAM, and I haven't seen it use anything nearly as much as that in a long while. i think it may be because I was moving large VM images around and stuff and it probably cached those. I'll probably leave it on for now unless there are any adverse problems.