How do I stop my Gateway Web Camera assistant software from auto-loading when I start my computer?

Hi,

The Camera assistant software usually comes along with the built-in web cameras which you install on your PC. This software gets installed along with the camera settings and other required files. Basically, it’s an instructional help that assist you in handling with various web-camera facilities and what all you can do with them. But once when the assistant software gets installed it uses most of the valuable resources and start-up time of your PC resulting in slow speed and continuous pop-ups that requires your attention to close every time it appears. So, to resolve this irritatingly frequent auto-loading problem you can choose any one method explained below as per your requirements.

Method A. Disabling the Camera Assistant software only for once.

If you want to disable the camera assistant software just for the current period (i.e. just for once when you switch on your PC) you just have to close down the program from the task bar. For doing this, go to “Show Hidden Icons” on your task bar at the bottom right of your computer screen. Search for the icon of ‘camera assistant software’, right click on it and select the “EXIT” option to terminate the program for that particular session with the PC.

Method B. Removing the Camera Assistant Software permanently from the PC.

You will have to remove the software program completely from the PC if you want to get rid of this problem forever. For removing the software, you’ve to delete its start-up folder icon and also disable the program’s permission from the windows config settings.

Click on the start button and then select the program files, as the list appears, check for the folder which contains Camera assistant software. Select the file, right click on it and choose delete.

Now, again go to the start menu and select the run command from the list. As the run dialog appears, write “msconfig” without any quotes in it and then press enter. This will take you to the windows configuration setting. Further, when the system configuration utility dialog appears go on to the last tab i.e. “start-up” tab. Now simply uncheck the box which appears parallel to the camera assistant software and click apply for saving the settings.

At last, for assuring that it doesn’t appears again, reboot your PC and check it. As far as possible, it will not appear in the task bar anymore until the web camera software is installed freshly. Good luck, hope this would solve your query.