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October 3, 2009
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Beware - Elements (8.0) Auto Analyzer runs on startup

  • October 3, 2009
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I've just discovered the CPU-intensive program "Elements Auto Analyzer" runs automatically when I turn on my PC.  I only realised when I saw all four cores running at 25% or so when nothing should have been happening at all.

I'm not sure whether there's a way to prevent that happening other than to hit it with a hammer, but using "Autoruns" from www.sysinternals.com you can untick it from the "Logon" tab.

I really hate programs that swamp my PC without asking me.  I have no desire at all for "Elements Auto Analyzer" to run under any circumstances.

I'm still finding that the main program (adobe premiere elements) itself never closes when I exit and I have to kill it using the task manager.  I shall probably write my own utility to prevent that happening and if others are having the same problem I'll upload it somewhere.

Grrrr!!

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      Correct answer A_T__Romano

      Grebnul

      Let us give another look for that AutoAnalyzer feature in Premiere Elements 8

      1. Click on the Organizer Tab (deep blue) in the Premiere Elements workspace

      2. In the row below that Organizer Tab is a black tab named Organizer (that is the Elements Organizer Tab) click on that

      3. With the Elements Organizer open, did you go to the Edit Menu/Preferences/and go down the list to AutoAnalyzer.Options

      4. There should be an AutoAnalyzer Options listing that you click on to bring up its dialog where you disable the feature and options.

      Also, at the bottom of the Elements Organizer workspace is a row of icons. The one next to the mailbox looking one is an AutoAnalyzer icon. If you click on that you can also bring up the AutoAnalyzer Options dialog that you made appear as above going the Edit Menu/Preferences/AutoAnalyzer Options route.

      When you are finished disabling this feature, go to the File Menu/Exit to get back to the Premiere Elements 8 workspace.

      Please let me know if that worked for you.

      ATR

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      Anonymous
      October 3, 2009

      I have now discovered how to stop the auto analyzer running on startup - you have to run Premiere Elements, choose "Organize", choose "Organizer", choose "Edit > Preferences" and choose "Auto-Analyzer Options".  There you can untick "Run Analyzer on Start Up" (and you might want to untick "Analyze All Media in Catalog Automatically".  Then click "OK".

      However, you are then confronted with a dialog box titled "Missing Sender E-mail Address" which reads "Please enter your E-mail address".  Click OK, and you find yourself in a dialog labelled "Sharing" in which you are required to enter your name and your email address.

      Unless you do this, you cannot turn off the Auto-Analyzer through the program.

      I have to say I think this is extremely poor.  I shall be requesting an explanation from Adobe.  Sure, I could probably put in some rubbish there, in fact I'll have to in order to stop the program eating my PC on startup, but I have never come across this kind of requirement to enter personal details to avoid programs compulsorily running.  For the moment I've not entered any details requested - and I can see from "Autoruns" that the Auto Analyzer has been forcibly re-enabled to run on startup.  Great.  And it's running again right away.  So I'll have to call up the task manager to kill it.

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