Why Is 'Logitech Download Assistant' in Windows (7) Update? And Uneeded Products Offered During Download Process...

Well, naysayers, I think I've found a "high priority" use for the Logitech Download Assistant.

Imagine, if you will, that Logitech invents a new input peripheral, based in technologies acquired from forces which exist outside of time and space, and whose alien geometries are so magnificent that it sends you into a mad fervor.  Immediately you begin worshiping it as your New God, weld its dongle/cord into your computer's chassis and destroy every other input port on the machine so that this new peripheral will forever be the only usable input device.  But wait!  This new Alpha-Omega++ peripheral has a completely novel "driver" that reinvents input protocols which were standardized decades ago, and which is nowhere to be found in the extensive Win 8 database!  Ia!  Where is your New God now?!  I'll tell you where.  Completely boned... without the exciting Logitech Download Assistant loading at every start-up!  But.. well... actually, the program would still require user input to install the nth-dimensional alien drivers, so...  Never mind, there is no actual use for this obnoxious program besides updating the half-baked digital-mixer-bloatware that comes with Logitech speakers.

But, no, wait!  Maybe Logitech's wireless peripherals all contain some high-frequency harmonic that's resonating off specific mid-west water-towers and killing off the world's bees!  So now, it's up to Logitech to quietly alter the operation of their... no.  No, never mind.  Any alteration of the peripheral's transmitter would require direct hardware access to the peripheral itself.  Still, I think I've got one more in me.

The year is 2014, and the Elite Cyberhacker Underground is totally kilo-radded out on the latest craze to hit the grid.  That craze?  DONGLESNARFING.  Rowdy Red, viceroy of the Screamers cybergang sits at his desk insufflating a 3000 yen line of sizzlekick straight into his upper nasal sinus through a hollowed-out Bic pen.  That's the only use for pens these days, thanks to the hyper-proliferation of wireless Logitech peripherals.  It used to be that there were other companies which sent channel-keyed information along the 2.4Hz short-range wireless frequency, but ever since the Trask megasplosion, Logitech has been the sole stewards of the Bluetooth legacy.  And so, it is Logitech with whom Rowdy Red and his Screamer ilk make war.  The burn of the sizz he snorted hasn't even dulled before Ronnie "Jazzhands" Culpepper comes charging through Red's door waving a 16 gig SD memchip between his fingers and grinning wildly.  "Oi, Red!" he says, triumphantly.  "Just scrumped a fat batch of channel sequences off Foyette street.  I think we've got teeth on every yoik in the southwest district by now!"  "What?"  Rowdy Red replies, irritated.  "There hasn't been a security vulnerability in the Bluetooth standard for over a decade, you twit.  Besides, if you somehow managed to get hold of a device's channel-hopping sequence, it gets reset every time its restar-"  Rowdy spasms violently as the kick from his sizzlekick hits him square in the adrenals and he falls to the floor, only to leap back to his feet now frothing.  "YEAH, JAZZY!  LETS TAKE THIS EXPLOIT TO THE LIMIT.  WE'RE GONNA- Oh, wait.  Hold on, my computer is.. What's this!  Logitech Download Assistant is running?!  Noooooo!  Your complete nonsense exploit has been patched by the ever-astute good-guy hackers at Logitech!"  Then they die, of drama.   BOOM!  High priority, made manifest.

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·         Are you using Logitech product on the computer?

This are optional updates if you are using Logitech devices like Keyboard and Mouse, Windows Update will suggest you to install the latest drivers which helps computer performance. Optional updates are not downloaded or installed automatically. To learn more about the types of updates that Microsoft publishes, see Turn automatic updating on or off and Change how Windows installs or notifies you about updates

Nice little conversation going on here about the Logitech Download Assistant installed via windows update.

Hmm..well you see...um...the thing about it is that despite its name, it literally does nothing, and serves no purpose.

It might have been created with the intention to perhaps some day, in some fashion, but no1cares.

It is totally benign, never executes its self nor interacts with anything else ever in any way, so I see no point to it being there, nor any point of removing or hiding it unless it irks you simply by existing.

Theres no negative, positive, or neutral consequence whatsoever of it being installed to begin with nor removed.

You can right-click any update in the list and choose to hide it. Subsequent checks for available updates will not show the hidden update update.