Al's very terse - and very subtle - message refers to the fact that this forum is for the support of Intel's Desktop Board products; it is NOT for the support of third-party motherboards (desktop or otherwise) and it is certainly NOT for the support of the Intel Driver & Support Assistant (iDSA) facility. Owing to the fact that there is no separate forum for the support of iDSA (I asked for this over and over but finally gave up), I suppose it could be discussed here, but remember that, because all Intel Desktop Boards have been discontinued, only peer-to-peer support is provided here.
To answer your question, I gave this a try... I disabled the startup of the iDSA Tray application and rebooted. I found that the iDSA Tray application was loaded regardless. Windows Task Manager says that the (disabled) startup had no impact, but I am unsure.
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