Creative Drivers. Does AudioHQ HAVE to be installed?

[BoomAM]

Hi.
Im not against creative drivers, despite the critisism of them, they are good drivers;
But i was wondering, i can access everything in audio HQ, that i use, like speaker type, and individual volume controls from the windows Control Panel. So if the bare drivers are installed, are the stuff such as AudioHQ & Taskbar icon really needed? or can i get rid of them?

 

[SilentRunning]

Open AudioHQ and under options you can deselect load on startup and show icon on taskbar. That is all you have to do.

 

[BFG10K]

All you need are the bare drivers. You don't need any of the extra applications if you don't want them.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

the only thing i keep installed aside from the drivers is "surround mixer" to change the 5.1 setting and fiddle with the input settings for my tv tuner card.

 

[ViRGE]

It's also useful for the EAX effects panel, for resetting the effects if a poorly programed game leaves them turned on.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
All you need are the bare drivers. You don't need any of the extra applications if you don't want them.

Except that CMSS is turned on by default... bleh.

 

[BoomAM]

what startup services in msconfig can i get rif of then?
Apart from Creative Taskbar. What about CTHelper?