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In Windows, hardware vendors have a bad habit of installing useless stuff. Latest trick is that the motherboard contains the payload that gets automatically installed when installing Windows. I had no idea it was even possible. This 'feature' can apparently be disabled from bios, but it needs to be done before installing Windows.

I happen to have both of those DLLs, but I had already disabled all ASUS-related services. I use this script to disable all services starting with "Asus" on startup. [1]

To disable the MyASUS auto-installer in BIOS go to Advanced, there is an option to disable auto-downloading of MyAsus in Windows. [2]

[1]: https://gist.github.com/Ciantic/76ade5f2731cbe87b70d17ff2898...

[2]: https://github.com/sammilucia/ASUS-G14-Debloating/blob/main/...

parent Ciantic 1 year ago

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