Windows 7 to have less intrusive notifications
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They did some crunching on Vista and realised[^] it had too many notifications. So Windows 7 will "have the same number of security messages, but they’ll be less intrusive and more informative." Anyone know how Windows 7 is going to display non-intrusive messages? Growl for Windows? Overlays? A system-tray blinking pop-up thing? Clippy? (All operating systems and applications have too many annoying messages. A long running software problem that I'd love for Windows to solve.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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I'm just glad they admitted the problem and aren't still saying "but it is protecting you and is driving safer user practices and really, its not that annoying, just click the button three times!"
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
7 has this light house like icon in the tray that when you click on it a small window comes up that has all the notifications in it. The control panel part of it in 6801 is called the Windows Solution Center, but I've heard in later builds the icon and name have changed.
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You can make Growl do that. It can hide all notifications and, based on type, play an audio file. Record your best growl Rodger and give it a go ;)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
Record your best growl
I think I'll outsource that to Elaine. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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7 has this light house like icon in the tray that when you click on it a small window comes up that has all the notifications in it. The control panel part of it in 6801 is called the Windows Solution Center, but I've heard in later builds the icon and name have changed.
Ah, thanks robertw019. Did some googling and found a few screenshots[^] and video[^]. The sys. tray icon is nice as is the little pop-up but the "Windows Solution Center" window looks a bit complicated for a notification system. Hopefully all apps. can target this thing and not just the OS. (Lighthouse is much nicer name than WSC.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Paul Watson wrote:
Record your best growl
I think I'll outsource that to Elaine. :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Wouldn't get much work done then would we....
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Wouldn't get much work done then would we....
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Quite likely not, but I'm sure it would be a far better growl than any I could make. ;)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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They did some crunching on Vista and realised[^] it had too many notifications. So Windows 7 will "have the same number of security messages, but they’ll be less intrusive and more informative." Anyone know how Windows 7 is going to display non-intrusive messages? Growl for Windows? Overlays? A system-tray blinking pop-up thing? Clippy? (All operating systems and applications have too many annoying messages. A long running software problem that I'd love for Windows to solve.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
You can read this post[^]. Its a much nice way to show notifications.
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"The callee (server [not server application]) is not available and disappeared; all connections are invalid. The call did not execute," said Internet Explorer, when I tried to access a deceased [window] object using JavaScript.
::..:.:..:: KiRtAN GoR ::..:.:..::
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You can read this post[^]. Its a much nice way to show notifications.
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"The callee (server [not server application]) is not available and disappeared; all connections are invalid. The call did not execute," said Internet Explorer, when I tried to access a deceased [window] object using JavaScript.
::..:.:..:: KiRtAN GoR ::..:.:..::
**It is indeed, thanks for the link Kirtan.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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They did some crunching on Vista and realised[^] it had too many notifications. So Windows 7 will "have the same number of security messages, but they’ll be less intrusive and more informative." Anyone know how Windows 7 is going to display non-intrusive messages? Growl for Windows? Overlays? A system-tray blinking pop-up thing? Clippy? (All operating systems and applications have too many annoying messages. A long running software problem that I'd love for Windows to solve.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
A little balloon popup: "Cr4kkz0r now has root access. Maybe you shouldn't have done that!"
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A little balloon popup: "Cr4kkz0r now has root access. Maybe you shouldn't have done that!"
"I tried to alert you 5 minutes ago that someone was attempting to access your machine. You ignored me so I let them in."
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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They did some crunching on Vista and realised[^] it had too many notifications. So Windows 7 will "have the same number of security messages, but they’ll be less intrusive and more informative." Anyone know how Windows 7 is going to display non-intrusive messages? Growl for Windows? Overlays? A system-tray blinking pop-up thing? Clippy? (All operating systems and applications have too many annoying messages. A long running software problem that I'd love for Windows to solve.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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They'll probably utilise the good ol' "shove all of them in one place and let the user find them" method, and place it somewhere in the Control Panel. Regards, --Perspx
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