RE: "Message Center?" (was: video intercept error)
- From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:39:35 -0500 (CDT)
There's a way to get rid of the message center. Or at least, there was two
years ago. You might want to ask about that on the PC-Audio list.
Bruce
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chris Feist wrote:
> A real pain is right. I get the message center box a lot on one computer,
> and it's definitely from Real Player. Joy. It's totally unreadable on my
> end as well. I just close it when it pops up.
>
> Chris Feist - The one and only!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Yardbird
>
> Gene,
>
> You're welcome. I'm pretty sure you're right. Those Real audio guys are
> the most aggressive marketing people around. A real pain, no pun intended,
> at least if you can't just see clearly or see at all what's on your screen
> and just click it away with your mouse.
>
> Really annoying.
>
> Daniel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:07 AM
> Subject: Re: "Message Center?" (was: video intercept error)
>
>
> Sounds like the Real Audio idiots at work. You will only when updates are
> ready when you check the system tray and find one that says " Updates are
> ready for your computer. ".
>
>
>
> Thanks; Gene
>
> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 12:06 PM
> Subject: "Message Center?" (was: video intercept error)
>
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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