Asus Com Service?

Giftz

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Hello. Could anyone tell me what the "Asus Com Service" does or what it is used for?

It is under startup programs and I just disabled it due to finding out that it was the culprit causing delay / lag on my desktop starting up. I'd turn on computer and the internet icon in the bottom right would have a blue loading circle on it for like 10-20 seconds and I always open task manager on bootup and check some things. When I'd click "Show Processes from All Users" under the processes tab it would freeze and not respond for the 10-20 seconds while the internet icon was still loading. Internet would not load at this time either if you tried to open it. Opening stuff like My Computer would work but if I tried to open stuff like msconfig it also would not work / would freeze until this stuff finished loading / being frozen.

Once it finally finished and the internet icon stopped showing the blue loading circle and displayed normally then the "show processes from all users" and msconfig and anything that was frozen would instantly pop up at the same time.

Anyway. I tested pretty much all the startup programs and eventually found that if I disabled "Asus Com Service" alone that it fixed this issue. From googling "Asus Com Service" all I really found was a topic about it being a memory hog and having a memory leak that the moderator said they planned to fix yet apparently never did according to posts from future years. I also never found any clear answer as to what it does. Was wondering if it's ok to keep disabled. I have a Z-97 P Asus motherboard.

Also I'm pretty sure I never had this issue before yesterday when I did Microsoft "Update". Not a windows update basically a slightly lower intensity version of a clean install that only reinstalls windows. System restore was not working until I did the Microsoft Update and while doing it it said it detected my Microsoft Redistributable c++ 4.5 (or something) was corrupt or something and it fixed it. After that the system restore feature works again. But then I have this issue. Not sure why I would though.

Thanks for any info and help :)
 


Oh yeah, qazzi that's the thread I stumbled upon where I said I saw them saying they never fixed the memory leak that mod said they'd supposedly fix.

The only info on it was said by him:
"its a process needed to link up with bios, so pretty needed. the leak is looked into and be expecting a fix later on "

So he claims it's "pretty much needed". I kinda doubt it. And I can't find any info on it anywhere. Anyway, if I do have to keep it enabled it would cause me issues.

Thanks for any info.
 
Not entirely sure, but I think it's something to do with SPD read/write to control the colour of RAM/other devices and BIOS settings etc etc.

Apparently it seems that it comes with G.SKILL's Trident Z RGB software too, if you have one. FYI, I don't have any ASUS hardware installed.

Guess it's safe to set the startup type of the service 'asComSvc' to manual to let it run only when necessary, the software will start the service automatically when it launches. it doesn't stop it when it's done using though.
Type "sc config asComSvc start= demand" without quotes in elevated command prompt, it'll do everything for you, or alternatively you can do it yourself in Services manager.
 

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