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"ASUS Welcome" installs out of nowhere - WPBT?

Onimax
Level 8

‎08-18-2015 01:27 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 01:34 AM by Community Admin

Hi there,

I don't know if this is related in any way to the newly released 1601 bios, but I noticed that an application called "ASUS Welcome" keeps installing itself automatically after every reboot pretty much since the exact moment I upgraded to bios 1601.

Apparently this is a Windows Store application that keeps telling users about Windows 10 and how awesome it works with ASUS products.
I find this very irritating as neither do I need this application nor do I want it, and it keeps installing itself over and over again at every reboot after uninstalling.
If this is a program that installs via the WPBT (Windows Platform Binary Table) is there a way to disable this "functionality" somewhere in the UEFI?

Also, did anybody else experience this behavior?
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Chino
Level 15

‎08-18-2015 02:27 PM

That's weird. I'm on W10 as well but I've never seen that program auto install itself. But then again I disabled Windows updates.
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Menthol
Level 14

‎08-18-2015 06:50 PM

Go to task scheduler and click on ASUS, you will probably find what ever ASUS service that is trying to install on boot up. Just delete it and reboot.

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Onimax
Level 8

‎08-18-2015 11:23 PM

Thanks for the feedback,

the task scheduler just contains the usuals suspects (AISuiteIII and DIPAwayMode - I already disabled the other ones).
I will keep monitoring this odd behavior...
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wakwaw
Level 7
In response to Onimax

‎11-23-2015 05:21 AM

Here is what I did:
- open powershell, and run/type
Get-AppxPackage *asuswelcome* | Remove-AppxPackage


to remove other built-in apps on Win10, take a look at http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them...
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