ATI Contol Panel. What is this thing?

Question

I decided to clean my computer today, and going through the Add/Remove Programs and I saw ATI Control Panel, and I want to take it off if it doesn't do anything important.

What does ATI Control Panel do? Do I need it?

Answer 1

It allows you to adjust settings for your graphics card... if you've never used it you probably won't... uninstalling it really isn't necessary it doesn't take up much in the way of hard drive space and little in the way of resources but what I did with my ATI control panel is that I disabled it in the system configuration utility.

Go to Start>Run and type "msconfig" and hit enter (no quotes) Click on the startup tab. You will see a list of a whole bunch of programs that start each time your computer boots. Most are annoying and can be disabled by unchecking them. Of the twenty or so listed in my startup tab I now only have 6 that I let start when I boot. (my anti virus program (4 program files), windows defender, and firewall. The rest are unchecked and my boot up time is around 45 seconds.

Here's a link that lists many startup items and gives you an idea what they do.. others you can google the file names (see the command line in msconfig) http://startup.networktechs.com/

Answer 2

Ok, first of all if you dont know what it is find out if its a virus, if it aint leave it.

for stuff like ATI LEAVE IT!!!! lol.. it basicly is the driver for your display, without it you may not be able to see. if you still dont belive me google the term