In accord with the alternatives we discussed here yesterday, I reset my Automatic Update options to inform me of "critical updates" and offer me the choice to accept or not to accept. Someone explained that notification would start appearing in my system tray (does that mean I'd have to pull up the sys tray now and then to *see* if there was a notification there?). Well, while doing email and reading news online this morning, I found myself interrupted by something that said it was "message center," but which I couldn't divine much about with Jaws except for that it had something Jaws spoke as "button" and another control that said "options." Well, I tabbed back and forth between these two inscrutable controls, switched to Jaws cursor, which couldn't "see" anything different there, and finally, fearful that to activate either control might invite a revisit from the Darth Vader Video Intercept, I alt f4'd outta there. Anyone know what that might have been? I did open my system tray list and find an icon saying I had four new messages from Real.com or whatever, you know, Real Audio's Death Star Center. Is that what the notification was telling me? Thanks to anyone who knows this particular drill, or has some central vision to see the rest of what's explained in a screen like the one I described where I could only find a couple of buttons. Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.8 - Release Date: 6/11/2005 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx