UAC and Samsung Magician on every startup

[Tych-0]

I just installed an 840 Pro and the Magician software. Every frigging time I start Windows I get the UAC warning for it. Does Magician need to start every time, is there any benefit to having it running all the time? I can't seem to find any place in the software to prevent it from loading on startup. I don't really want to resort to msconfig, especially if there is some benefit from having it start along with the OS. Can / should I disable it?

 

[Suprfire]

You don't really need it to start with your machine. I think i've only used magician's features twice, to over provision my SSD, and to use their "performance optimization" feature. Things like TRIM and Garbage Collection are OS handled so i don't see a reason to keep Magician starting.

I also think you can modify the exe or startup shortcut to run as admin so it wont trigger a UAC prompt.

 

[Tych-0]

Is there a way to stop it from starting up other than uninstalling it or mscofig?

 

[evilsofa]

Go to the Windows Startup Folder and remove the shortcut for Samsung Magician. It doesn't need to be there.

In Windows 7 and 8, the location of the Startup Folder for an individual user is:

C:\users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For all users:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

[Tych-0]

Sweet, that worked, thank you. I'm assuming there are no detrimental effects to doing this. I can always open it when I want to.

 

[munkle]

I've also noticed samsung magician will wake a computer like every 15 min for some reason as well. Run one time to do your optimizations and then you can just disable it.