Hi,

Firstly forgive me but I'm not very technical minded and wasn't entirely sure which section to put this in. I recently bought a Samsung M3 1T Portable hard drive and have an enquiry I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me with.

When I plug in and install the Samsung portable hard drive manager software, it seems a quick launch icon is automatically installed which appears in the bottom right hand corner of my desktop a short while after start up.

The first issue is that a box appears every time I start up saying 'Samsung hard drive manager' which fades when I move my cursor but really is unwanted. But more importantly, when I shut down without exiting the programme I get an error message come up saying the software is still running in the background. This happens regardless to whether the hard drive is plugged in, so the software appears to run permanently in the background once installed.

The thing is I only intend to use the hard drive very occasionally and so don't really want to have the bother of an two extra clicks to exit the manager every time I shut down my computer. I would just uninstall the software but ideally I would like to utilise the 'secure zone' facility (which I assume can only be done with the software installed). I have tried deleting the drive manager from my 'start-up folder' but that didn't help, it still launched when I restarted. I can't find any options anywhere in the manager for this sort of thing, and don't appear to be given any options regarding auto-launching or anything during the software installation process either . So it just seems to be an all or nothing deal. Which is less than ideal under the circumstances. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.