ATI HotKey Poller Service - what is it?

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Thank you for your reply. In the area control Panel - Admin - Services,
ATI hotkey poller is disabled. I'll leave it that way.

I also saw my firewall disabled and Antivirus and a few other things
that she had me uncheck in the msconfig - SERVICES tab. I have set
most of the ones she disabled back to manual or automatic (as best as I
could). I had numerous event errors for the firewall before I set it to
automatic.

I think I should put the checkmark back in the items that are running
in msconfig - SERVICES. I have the feeling if I don't, if I happen to
make a change in start-up and click ok, the unchecked items in the
SERVICES tab will get disabled again. Am I correct about this?

Thank you very much.

Sincerely, Libra

Quaoar Wrote:
> "Libra" Libra.1epwoz@pcbanter.net wrote in message
> news:Libra.1epwoz@pcbanter.net...-
>
> A tech had me go to msconfigservices, hide Windows items and uncheck
> everything left. One of the items was ATI HotKey Poller - I think by
> unchecking it I disabled the service and would like to know what it
> is
> and if it's necessary. Also, I saw it in my Event Viewer saying it
> stopped at a time I had a major problem with Windows.
>
> Does unchecking things in msconfigservices disable the services or
> just stop them from loading at start-up? (because there's a few more
> items unchecked.)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely, Libra
>
>
> --
> Libra-
>
> The ATI hotkey poller service enables keyboard control of the display
> properties. Frankly, I've disabled the service from every ATI display
> I've had since it adds nothing that is not already available from the
> display properties; i.e., it's a complete waste of resources. AFIK,
> there is no way to disable this service from the ATI control panel;
> msconfig is as good as anything else for disabling it although you
> could
> remove it from
> HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current_Version\Run
>
> Q


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Libra