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Help Bug in Kies3

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Woodstockjohn

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Has anyone seen this "Bug" in Kies3. I am running Windows 8.1 on a HP TouchSmart desktop. I keep everything fully up to date. Once or twice a day, I sync my Galaxy S5 with Outlook. However, lately something funny has been happening after I get out of both Outlook and Kies3. Sometimes I cannot open Outlook again! I tried reporting this to Samsung a few weeks ago; to no avail. So, today when it happened I opened Task Manager and looked around. Low and behold, there was still a Kies3 process running; even though Kies3, itself was not running! When I deleted the process ... you guessed it ... Outlook opened right up! So you tell me if this isn't a bug? BTW, when it happened again today, I called the Samsung hotline, got the service rep on my computer by remote, showed her what happened and asked her to report it. She basically said they don't report bugs! Yes, she really said that!!! I am hoping that some Samsung nerd reads this and gets interested in fixing Kies3 ... or else proves that I am crazy.
 
If you are interested, I can show you how to at least make sure Outlook runs every-time you want it to.
I have Quicken Checkbook, and it auto updates the database daily for 5 different bank accounts w/o me having to do anything to it.

but, that auto update program does not properly exit in Win7. this prevents the Checkbook application from opening... no where on the internet did I find a way to fix this, so I just reverted back to my old DOS programming daze and did a Force Kill.

I did a lot of yelling at Quicken and they ignored me just like you got from Samsung.

So, I went to DOS and fixed it.

This is for Quicken, you need to find the executable for Kies in Task Manager and replace qw.exe with that filename.


Open up Notepad in Windows, then paste this with your .exe file's name.
this is a DOS Batch File, it must contain only ASCII text, that is why Notepad is the preferred editor to use.

taskkill /f /im qw.exe

Now, do a File SaveAs and place it on the Desktop.

KillKies.bat is the name you have to call it. Or whatever name suits your fancy, but it must have a .BAT extension or it won't work.

Now, before you try to start Outlook, just double click on KillKies.bat and poof! no more Kies.
 
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