What is Acer Launcher any way?

[paulsiu]

I recently purchase a Acer Aspire 3680 as a backup computer. When I turn on the machine, something call Acer Launcher appears. What's weird is that it display ads for Norton security, but I can't get it to go away (except when I kill it using the task manager). It's a very annoying app because it cannot be minimize or put to the back. Why is is here and how do I get rid of it?

Paul

[Q8PHANTOM]

let it do it work

it will install the important driver and application don't kill it

if it then done it will not appear next time you run your computer

[hoggie]

leave it alone.asking for trouble messing about with launch manager.
if its the empowering tech then that is just a hog.kill it

[saturation]

Launcher runs drivers that let you see controls like volume, power,. external video etc., on the screen, allows you to set the accessory buttons ... however all are not necessary. Once the accessory buttons are configured, a lot of what it does is redundant and occupies resident memory.

[paulsiu]

Well, the first time I boot the machine up, the launcher started and after a few hours it was still running. I couldn't even minimize it, it would snap back into the center and block all of my windows. I decided to kill it and it went away. The computer was very slow, but I thought that was because it was running Vista on 512 Mb. When the keyboard started acting funny, I return the machine for an exchange.

The second Acer took half an hour to config Vista and reboot. It then launch Acer Launchpad after the reboot and run for about 15 minutes (while displaying annoying ads). It then reboot and I had to wait another 15 minutes until it was finish. It took roughly an hour, but at least the Laundpad close normally.

I notice that second machine was pretty speedy, so Vista is not slow after all. I guess the first machine was probably defective.

Paul

[saturation]

Well, the first time I boot the machine up, the launcher started and after a few hours it was still running. I couldn't even minimize it, it would snap back into the center and block all of my windows. I decided to kill it and it went away. The computer was very slow, but I thought that was because it was running Vista on 512 Mb. When the keyboard started acting funny, I return the machine for an exchange.

The second Acer took half an hour to config Vista and reboot. It then launch Acer Launchpad after the reboot and run for about 15 minutes (while displaying annoying ads). It then reboot and I had to wait another 15 minutes until it was finish. It took roughly an hour, but at least the Laundpad close normally.

I notice that second machine was pretty speedy, so Vista is not slow after all. I guess the first machine was probably defective.

Paul

Interesting, not sure what this is, bolded item. Vista took 30min too to initialize, then the Acer stuff happened but the machine was ready to run after Vista booted. It was slow with all these Vista doo-dads running, I've spent 2 hours testing and off useless Vista and Acer applications and the UI, so my Acer looks like an XP now.