Intel Software Manager - Page 2

levicki · ‎05-25-2012

Guys, this software manger is nice and all, but...

1. There should be a more prominent notice that it is going to be installed -- maybe some users will get irritated when it pops up first time they start Visual Studio.
2. Download speed is very poor -- on 1MB/sec (megabyte, not megabit) capable link it is downloading with only 250KB/sec.

I suggest the following improvements:

- It should be capable of using more than one simultaneous connection for download of a single file otherwise what is the point of providing download manager which is many times slower than traditional download accelerators?

- You should be able to specify maximum bandwidth used for downloading.

- There should be "Start All" and "Pause All" button.

- During setup, before chosing full or custom install, there should be a separate question whether to install Intel Software Manager, when it should be launched, and how often to check for updates. Those things should be transparent for users and configured up front, not after the fact.

SergeyKostrov · ‎03-23-2013

Here are my comments: >>1. ISM is installed without consent. That is simply unacceptable. Absolutely agree. >>2. ISM in mandatory. Again, unacceptable. Absolutely agree. I disable ISM in Windows Registry Editor. Do you need more details? >>3. ISM launch settings are not exposed to user during setup. Also unacceptable. Absolutely agree. I disable ISM in Windows Registry Editor and yesterday, before I started all Intel software downloads ( see a couple of posts above ), I disabled ISM and verified that it is not working, then I downloaded ~2GB in ~20 minutes. Of course, this is Not my business, but I think it could be considered as a waste of time and resources for Intel.

Bernard · ‎03-23-2013

>>>It is not really strange -- because of being such an amateurish attempt at download manager, the ISM downloads with only one connection to the server while download accelerators are capable of making multiple connections and utilizing full bandwidth available on the customer side.>>> Probably there is so upload policy which reserves only one upload slot(connection) for the ISM.It is hard to say what is really going on the server side without netmon/wireshark beign used to monitor network connection.I doublt that IE will open more than one connection to the server and by doing this it will mimmick download manager behaviour as I said earlier monitoring soft is needed to understand this.

levicki · ‎03-30-2013

I am sick of waitng, lets do this the hard way...

Since Intel obviously does not want to offer an option to not install ISM during setup, I have figured out how to prevent ISM from being installed.

1. Unpack the installation executable

2. Edit 1033\mediaconfig.xml or 1041\mediaconfig.xml

3. Remove the following sections:

<Component id="69" depend="" platform="IA32;Intel64" cafe="false" visible="false" mandatory="1" state="CIA32 | CINTEL64 | CINTEL64CROSS | FIA32 | FINTEL64 | FINTEL64CROSS | MKLIA32 | MKLINTEL64 | IPPIA32 | IPPINTEL64 | TBB" alias="ISM" ARP="false" InstallsStatus="true" ISM="true">
        <Name>Intel Software Manager</Name>
        <Description>Intel Software Manager</Description>
        <ProductCode>{312C7771-D54D-4ACB-8DBB-FFEDA75100BC}
   </ProductCode>
        <ProductVersion>1.0</ProductVersion>
        <PreUninstalls></PreUninstalls>
        <Data>./Installs/1033/ism/ism.msi</Data>
        <InstallSubDir>Composer XE 2013</InstallSubDir>
        <SXSInstallSubDir>Composer XE 2013.171</SXSInstallSubDir>
        <Shared instance="{E1A7F3D0-FE89-4AFE-985A-B232C45A3700}" client="{B0FA4037-325D-4813-AE31-E231317E9905}" />
        <Dependency><Dependency ShowCfgDialogAlways="1">{3FE57DD0-ED56-4797-A450-0AF4474FFBA9}</Dependency></Dependency>
      </Component>

And also:

<ISM guid="{2A689188-86E4-4F58-9C5C-CE274160B924}" version="13.0" name="Intel(R) C++ Composer XE 2013 " update_id="w_ccompxe_2013.3.171" media_id="RPB">CARCHCOMMON</ISM>
      <ISM guid="{DB33AC49-E99F-460C-90A3-DA06F39FF55E}" version="13.0" name="Intel(R) Visual Fortran Composer XE 2013 " update_id="w_fcompxe_2013.3.171" media_id="H95">FARCHCOMMON</ISM>
      
      <ISM guid="{3D2CE0B3-310B-43FC-A79B-FA846AEF69E7}" version="11.0" name="Intel(R) Math Kernel Library 11.0 " update_id="w_mkl_11.0.3.171" media_id="9KC">MKLARCHCOMMON</ISM>
      <ISM guid="{05A0C07E-BBE5-4273-9046-B9BF0EB00FFD}" version="7.1" name="Intel(R) Integrated Performance Primitives 7.1 " update_id="w_ipp_7.1.1.171" media_id="HS3">IPPARCHCOMMON</ISM>
      <ISM guid="{826913BE-5C6C-4647-B408-2FFF5ACF8FFC}" version="4.1" name="Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks 4.1 " update_id="w_tbb_4.1.3.171" media_id="P9V">TBB</ISM>

4. Remove folder ism and its contents in installs\1033

5. Run setup.exe

And ISM will not be installed.