Intel DSA booting automatically even when disabled.

[meager tulip]

If a program is disabled, it shouldn't boot by itself when the OS boots. Yet, the DSA does exactly that.

Windows 10 21H2.

[tranquil viper]

Hey bud, immediately, my time working with the iDSA team tells me they'll want a copy of the iDSA folder to view what's going on. If you can zip this folder and attach, it would be helpful.
C:\ProgramData\Intel\DSA

[meager tulip]

@tranquil viper - there you go. Pinging so you know.

[tranquil viper]

I'm totally fine with people pinging me 🙂
Appreciate it! I'll make sure to get it to them

[meager tulip]

Glad to help. 👍

[tranquil viper]

Ticket FMH-1598 has been created.

[meager tulip]

Hopefully, it's resolved soon. 🙂

[tranquil viper]

Hey @meager tulip, our support team would like to know how you’re disabling DSA

[meager tulip]

Using Task Manager's Startup tab.

[tranquil viper]

Using the Task Manger Startup tab will not work, it will only disable the tray. If you want to disable the DSA service you need to go into “Service Manager” and turn it off, plus switch it from “Automatic” to “Manual”.
cc @oblique oyster Please have someone create an article for this ^

[meager tulip]

But this shouldn't be necessary. If it's disabled through Task Manager, it should affect automated start-up as well. And the program's right-click menu (since it lacks a proper GUI) should have options to turn off automated startup...

Though I did disable using Services.msc, will see how it goes.

[oblique oyster]

@tranquil viper roger that.

[oblique oyster]

Hello @tranquil viper , here you go: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000092905.html