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Boy Wonder · Post by **Boy Wonder** » Sat May 14, 2022 3:05 am

When I bought my laptop three years ago, I never knew it had been enrolled in AMD's User Experience Program. As it turns out, there are two reasons why it's bad for computers. 1. Continually running in the background, it eats up internet usage like you won't believe. 2. It interferes with your software-to-hardware device, resulting in dreaded snaps, cracks and pops as well as latency issues. The troubling program is called AUEPMaster.exe but you can't uninstall it from the Windows uninstall menu. It doesn't exist there. (No wonder I never knew about it!) I had to use WiseCare to uninstall it but I'm sure any installer worth its salt should work.

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Sat May 14, 2022 11:11 am

I can't imagine buying a computer and not doing a complete reformat of the drives and doing a complete from scratch re-installation of my software. Oh well.

cnt · Post by **cnt** » Sat May 14, 2022 12:39 pm

Did AMD install Windows for you? Blame the one that installed Windows on your computer and then installed any crap you didn't ask for.
Make a clean install, problem solved.

AdvancedFollower · Post by **AdvancedFollower** » Tue May 17, 2022 2:38 pm

There's probably a checkbox when you install the AMD drivers. Since that checkbox is probably labeled something like "Join the AMD User Experience Program to help make our products even better!" and not "Make my computer run like crap and continually upload huge chunks of data to the Internet", it might be easy to miss.

tony10000 · Post by **tony10000** » Wed May 18, 2022 5:08 am

Best to always check Windows Task Manager often and to see what is running in the background, using CPU, memory, and network resources. Also, go to the start up tab and disable anything that is not needed to run at start up.

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Wed May 18, 2022 7:39 am

The AMD User Experience is something you sign up for after you installed their software. No checkboxes on install, no secret stuff. Seems like it was active when the op bought this machine. I have no knowledge of what happens when you select "Join"...
Regardless, get a new machine, do a fresh install of the software you want.
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ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed May 18, 2022 8:05 am

It was about the fourth link down from searching "how to opt out of AMD user experience."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4IqutVrkQ

Pictus · Post by **Pictus** » Wed May 18, 2022 11:54 am

Your friends:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint ... s/autoruns

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint ... s-explorer
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster
https://github.com/builtbybel/ThisIsWin11
https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Sun May 22, 2022 10:39 am

Its in services too if I remember right, you can disable it from there.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun May 22, 2022 10:47 am

ghettosynth wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 8:05 am It was about the fourth link down from searching "how to opt out of AMD user experience."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4IqutVrkQ

That's what I was thinking. "There gotta be an easy way out".

AMD User Experience Program - Shame on them!