Asus Live Update Utility - Preventing Auto Startup?

**Amr** · July 9th, 2006, 01:32 PM

I have a utility called Asus Live Update on my notebook. It launches itself automatically at startup and sits in my taskbar.

I would like to launch it manually, and I do not want it to launch at startup.

The problem is that this app doesn’t have any configuration or settings feature.

How can I prevent it from starting up? Is there a manual method?

Thanks.

**doddsy** · July 9th, 2006, 01:42 PM

msconfig??? on the startup tab.....uncheck it, if its there.

or

run services.msc .look for it there. set startup type to "disabled" and stop the service........

**Amr** · July 9th, 2006, 05:40 PM

I could not find it in either.

**Detritus** · July 9th, 2006, 05:46 PM

Look for ALU.exe in msconfig, that's the utility I believe.

**Amr** · July 11th, 2006, 04:07 AM

Yup that was it, thanks very much.

**luanbk** · April 17th, 2012, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by Detritus

Look for ALU.exe in msconfig, that's the utility I believe.

Hello everyone, I'm from Vietnam. I also have this problem.
But I looked carefully at msconfig, services.msc and there is no ASUS Live Update or ALU.exe to set the start up off. What can i do???

**bigBonehead** · April 18th, 2012, 10:25 PM

If you need to stop the app from auto-starting, CCleaner works well

**stroyal** · April 19th, 2012, 11:40 AM

Welcome to TechIMO!
Is it in the Start Folder, under the Start Button/Programs/Start Up?

Or uninstall Asus Live Update.
I can't think of a more useless program,

I like to do my own updates, not run a program all the time that will probably only be used 2 or 3 times, in the motherboards lifetime.
Maybe a few more times, if it is for a video card.

My last new desktop is 9 years old, and it has never had an update available, and never will (Abit)
My video card had 1 update when it was new, and will never have another available. (Sapphire AGP)