Intel PROSet/Wireless software

[severian64]

Hi,

I just got a brand new HP laptop from my company and i was shocked to see the memory utilization under Task Manager. Without running any apps, the OS was already burdened by tons of processes running in the background eating up RAM.

I found that 5 processes eating up 68 MB in total where from Intel PROSet/Wireless software. WTF?!?!? 68 MB for a piece of software that manages your wireless connection profiles and diagnostics? Is this the height of sloppy programming or what?

Can i uninstall this software and use the Windows Wireless connection manager?

Thanks,

Severian

 

[nweaver]

I've never had that big of a footprint from the Proset, and IMHO it is better the WZC. YMMV depending on use.

 

[InlineFive]

Granted the footprint is a little large but the amount of functionality it offers (especially for administrators) greatly outweighs that.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: severian64Can i uninstall this software and use the Windows Wireless connection

Yes you can.

Many End-Users probably do not need, do not understand parts of the additional uses of the Intel Utility, and are probably are better off with WZC.

Some of the posts above come from people that are any thing but regular Network End-Users.:thumbsup:

I do not have at hand an Intel Wireless.

However, you should take a close look it might be that the Wireless Utility per-se is just a fraction of the Junk that it loaded up and might seem to be part of the essential to Wireless.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ask the admins at work first. Make sure they've installed the latest version of the software too, there were some memory issues with at least one recentish version.

 

[cmetz]

severian64, generally speaking, never use the vendor's wireless utilities. They all suck. Just use the driver and Windows XP SP2's built-in wireless zero configuration software. It sucks, but less than most vendors, and in a de facto standard way.

(if you're using Windows pre-XP or pre-SP2, then you may have to use the vendor's utilities to get everything to work)