The Motive SmartBridge background task is installed with Verizon Online’s software which is included with their residential DSL service. It has an autoupdate prompt which runs at startup. I disabled it on my computer simply because I don’t know exactly what it does. Since I don’t have a use for it and anything running uses up some memory, I’ll keep it that way. Read the comments to learn about removing verizon online support center.
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Thanks for the info Elliot I finaly got rid of Motive Smartbridge Autoupdate.
Lee:
Thank you so much for the fix on motive smart. I had been wrestling with it for several days and it was exremely annoying. I dont even have a cell phone.
Thanks for all the explanations. After installing DSL from bluewin/swisscom
I had to discover that the ALT-F1 and so on keys have been redirected
to motive smart bridge. But I need these keys for operating the
Total commander file manager. With a free regcleaner software I
successfully kicked motiveSB out of the start list. I have also found, in the
windows/motive directory, a mccuninst.exe file but until now I didn’t
dare to use it. The motiveSB was most likely installed to run an online
“quick help” feature of the ISP. It didn’t work anyway, so I am not
missing anything really now.
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Thanks for all the help. I finally got Motive off my computer. My version was downloaded with a new DSL service from BellSouth. With all the help from this site I just started looking in different folders under Program files. I finally found it under “Common Files.” It would not let me trash can it because it was running at the time. I finally opened the the “Motive” folder and started deleting everything in it one at a time. Once I deleted enough stuff in the folder it let me delete the whole folder. I am new at this stuff, and I really appreciate your help. I was turned on to your site by a company in New Zealand named “Motive” which has nothing to do with this intrusive Smartbridge, but which has gotten a lot of email asking about it. Andy there was really nice to let me know about your great site. Keep up the good work.