15) As for optimizing Easy Settings, you have two options:
- The extreme approach described in the Opening Post of this thread, where you save a copy of the Easy Settings program folder, uninstall it, then sideload just the EasyDisplayMgr module (dmhkcore.exe) in order to have basic Fn-keys. Fn-F11 Silent Mode will not work, neither will several other Easy Settings features. You can still load the Control Center using a shortcut to controlcenter.exe. The steps are detailed in this post to TANWare.
- The more "mainstream" approach of simply tweaking how Easy Settings is loaded. It is described in this discussion with Jasman, but the key steps are copied below:
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Mainly for these reasons, I recommend that most people keep Easy Settings installed and just tweak how it is loaded. You do this in Windows Task Scheduler (Control Panel - Administrative Tools) by changing the following tasks under Task Scheduler Library.
4) EasyDisplayMgr (dmhkcore) - change the delay from 30 seconds to 3 seconds: Double-click the task name, select the Triggers tab, click Edit and change the Delay task for setting to 3 seconds. This will load the Fn keys much faster after login.
5) EasySpeedupManager - change the delay from 30 seconds to 3 seconds. This will allow Silent Mode (Fn-F11) to work soon after login.
6) SmartSetting - change the delay from 30 seconds to 3 seconds. This will activate some settings saved in Control Center soon after login (such as Bluetooth power off).
7) WLANStartup - right-click the task name and select Disable. The purpose of this module is to force WiFi to connect after login by toggling the adapter off/on, causing a brief dropout starting 7 seconds after login. The Intel PROSet driver suffers from a bug that sometimes prevents it from automatically connecting at startup. It happens if the adapter has ever been disabled/enabled. If your WiFi connects fine even after disabling WLANStartup, that means you don't have to suffer that temporary dropout. Otherwise you'll probably have to keep WLANStartup enabled -- or re-install with the Driver-only PROSet package as described in the Latency thread.
16) These tweaking instructions apply to Easy Settings version 1.x (the latest I have is 1.1.1.4). As part of their Win8 package (called simply Settings) Samsung included a version 2.x of Easy Settings. So far, the only way to get it is by manually saving the Win8 Settings package in SW Update, then extracting the Win7 part. It looks the same as V1.x but loads very differently. Mostly, it is faster -- but still slow as molasses compared to similar tools from other vendors. And it still messes with Windows’ loading of other services and tasks.
See this discussion with gadgetrants on how to get Easy Settings V2.x and what the new modules are.
I recommend caution before tweaking load timings for Easy Settings 2.x. Just to illustrate: After tweaking it, I found Google Drive began loading for Windows users who never installed it. Took me an afternoon of cursing Google before I realized Google Drive was NOT being loaded by Windows, but by Easy Settings, because another Windows user DID have Google Drive installed. Yes, that’s scary!
I’ll post when I have some conclusions on V2.x. For now, it seems safe to install and use without any tweaks.
Rhadoo, I realize there is a lot more detail here on Easy Settings etc than you probably wanted. As is often the case for me when posting answers, I cannot help elaborating for others who may stumble on these posts. And this thread was in serious need of an update anyway!
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Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
