How do I stop ATI Catalyst Control Center Notification popping up every time I enter Windows XP?

Question

How do I stop ATI Catalyst Control Center Notification popping up every time I enter Windows XP? Ok I just bought ATI X1950XT 256mb video card and when I installed drivers from cd this didnt show up but after intalling latest catalyst 6.12 from ATI website this thing keeps showing everytime I boot windows and I have to wait till it dissappears for like 2 minutes.It says ATI SmartGart is looking through your computer to optimize the graphics or something like that is there any way to disable it?Its really annoying.

Answer 1

ATI SmartGART startup task installed by the drivers for ATI Radeon graphics cards on Windows 95/98/ME. ATI’s own description : “SMARTGART is an advanced diagnostics tool that automatically determines and configures the optimal AGP and PCI bus settings for the most stable graphics performance. SMARTGART will run a series of tests on the first reboot after a driver install. During the test SMARTGART may blank the screen.”. Additionally : if you, as the end-user, decide to go and modify some of your ATI graphics card settings through the Control Panel ATI icon, these settings will be saved but on the next reboot this startup task will run and check whether the new settings will work without stability problems. If ATI’s SmartGART startup task believes that the new settings will make the PC unstable, it corrects the relevant settings accordingly.

Recommendation :
Leave alone – this startup task only runs during Windows boot. Once it has performed all the checks mentioned above, it stops, which is why you will never see it in your Task List. Note for gamers and advanced users : if you find that some settings that you set through the ATI icon in the Control Panel, do not stick, it is most probably because ATI2S9AG performed its function and decided to modify the settings you had set on account that it felt they would lead to instability. Thus, if this causes you problems because you want specific settings regardless of what ATI SmartGART thinks, then disable this startup task on the The Ultimate Troubleshooter to prevent SmartGART from changing your specifically chosen settings.

Answer 2

If you really want to stop it from popping up, you should be able to click the icon it creates at the bottom left of the screen, and choose not to show the splash screen on startup. If you want to remove it altogether from starting, my site below under computer talk optimizing your PC performance will show you how. Hope this helps

Answer 3

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894