Dust defender isn't turning on automatically and should I turn coolboost on?
Hi, I used to hear dustdefender turn on and see a little notification in my windows tray but now it's stopped and I'm not sure why. Also I see coolboost is default set to off, should I turn it on? Is there any downside to turning it on? I was worried it might throttle my cpu or gpu to cool down but reading about it it seems to increase fan speed, so what's the downside?
It's a 791g V17 Nitro by the way
Thanks
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Type Quick Access in windows search and see if it works.
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Hi,
Using it manually works, I can hear the noises I used to hear before and feel the air blowing out.
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If you've upgraded to Win 10, there's a good possibility it isn't going to work on auto like it used to.
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Thing is I upgraded to win10 the day I unboxed the laptop, so its worked on win10 in the past, just not anymore. Isn't this just a software issue that Acer needs to sort out if that's the case? Surely just a service or process that needs a minor tweak
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Check in Task Manager/ Startup if it is there and enabled.
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I can't see it listed in startup. Any idea how I could add it back?
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In Task manager/Startup, click on File/ Run New Task and find the executable for Dust Defender.
It should be in Program Files somewhere. They searching "Dust Defender.exe.
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OK so doing that opened the dustdefender application. This looks different to the one I access through quick access and when I click "Clean Now" it doesn't really do anything. Spamming click now causes very high CPU usage and although the "Notify me when active" box is checked I don't get a notification in the tray, and the dirty fan icon doesn't change.
However, there's a file in the plugins folder of quickaccess under dustdefender called dustdefenderclean. Opening this shows me the screen I get through quickaccess and pressing clean now actually does what its supposed to do. I can hear the fan changing and after a little while the dirty fan icon changes to clean. There are also 2 .dll files in that folder. These files are also dated 2015 whereas the previous one is 2014.0 -
Does quick access have any configuration or setting in it?
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No, there's no option to turn DustDefender on or off, there's only an option to "Clean Now" in QuickAccess
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