[gui-talk] Disabling Winamp Automatic Updates - Was: Re: Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afree v.8?

Tue Apr 29 16:56:39 CDT 2008

Glad it worked for you. I don't find winamp's preferences that 
unusual  but maybe that's just because I have been using it for 
years. I do not remember it visually anymore though as I only started 
using it after losing my sight.

Several programs I use have the preferences set up this way with a 
list of categories on the left that you can arrow up and down thru 
and then the different options for each category to tab thru on the 
right that change as you arrow up and down thru the different 
categories. Eudora or skype have a different "look" to me though I do 
not know what either program's options dialog looks like visually - 
of eudora. i have a vague visual recollection of the options iialog 
of a much earlier version and navigation of it has not changed much.

Again, glad you got your problem fixed!

Take care ...

Doris

At 01:05 PM 4/29/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>Doris,
>
>Thanks for the instructions. Two comments.
>
>First of all, I tried your approach of typing all those letters, but I have
>no idea where I wound up. It didn't seem at all that I'd gotten into a pane
>or menu having to do with Preferences. So I hit Escape and did what I'd
>normally do to go to Winamp Preferences, which is just to press Control P.
>And it opened.
>
> >>From there on, everything worked just as you said it would. I have been
>advised to do this before, but I must not have paid close enough attention
>to the instructions, because I sort of didn't hear the bit about navigating
>through the General Preferences with the tab key in order to find this
>option. Winamp has a very idiosyncratic interface, and so all I ever noticed
>on prior visits to Preferences was that I could arrow down through several
>levels and lists of options. But I never saw the one about check for updates
>among those items. Ordinarily, in nearly any tools/options type of setup I
>can think of,if something presents itself as a nested list like this, and
>your arrow key moves you through what appears immediately, that's the whole
>deal. Seldom in my experience is there an additional dimension where, if you
>just start from within a category like General and tab rather than arrow,
>you'll be presented with an entirely different sequence of options! That's
>pretty unusual and not exactly intuitive, at least not for me. So I thought
>there was something non-standard about my Winamp or something, you know?
>Everybody said look under Preferences and uncheck x. And I just couldn't
>find it.
>
>But this time, encountering exactly the same puzzling situation, I alt
>tabbed back into your message and finally noticed your instruction to use
>the Tab key! And of course I found an entirely different, and much more
>extensive, list of options to check or uncheck. And turned off that one, of
>course.
>
>Whew. Well, it's all fine, now. Thanks again.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris & Doris" <chipmunks at gmx.net>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:38 PM
>Subject: [gui-talk] Disabling Winamp Automatic Updates - Was: Re: Is AVG
>Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afree v.8?
>
>
>Please change the subject line when you change the topic of the mesage.
>
>To disable winamp's automatic checking for updates at startup, do the
>following:
>
>1. When focused on the winamp window, press
>
>ttrl+p
>
>to bring up the winamp preferences
>
>2. find the general category in the preferences and tab to the
>checkbobx that says  "check for new winamp version at startup" and uncheck
>it.
>
>tab to the "close" button and hit your spacebar on it and you're done
>and winamp should not bother you anymore.
>
>An accessible place to download the latest version of winamp is the
>"downloads" section on
>
>www.whitestick.co.uk
>
>hth
>
>Doris
>
>
>
>At 02:10 PM 4/28/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Sherri,
> >
> >Well, doris seems to know the score; see her post. As for Winamp, I still
> >can't figure that one out, so when it happens, I just alt F4 out of it and
> >then relaunch it, and that doesn't usually come up the next time. Although
> >of course it hits me eventually. No one has ever explained to me. Someone
> >once said go to winamp.com and download whatever is the newest version, but
> >I can never figure out that Web page. Once in a while , someone recommends
> >going to an independent site where they have download links for Winamp, and
> >that usually provides me with the latest version so that they stop
> >bothering
> >me. But it seems only months before that stuff is popping up again and
> >blocking me and I have to ask someone again where to go to update Winamp,
> >and go through the whole thing all over again. If Jaws could deal with that
> >pop up or whatever it is, I'd just click on something and allow it to be
> >updated. But that damn thing is not accessible.
> >
> >Grumble, grumble. But check Doris's message.
> >
> >Joel
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> >To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:56 PM
> >Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by
> >afree
> >v.8?
> >
> >
> >I was a little confused too as well Joel and I can't get my Winamp to
> >update
> >either. *smile.
> >
> >When I looked at the website, it looked like the AVG 8 is NOT!! free. They
> >are trying to talk you into purchasing it, but that is just my take.
> >
> >Sherri
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> >To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:19 PM
> >Subject: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by a free
> >v.8?
> >
> >
> >On the JFW and Blind Tech lists, a number of people have been going back
> >and
> >forth about how to find, download and cope with what they vaguely refer to
> >as AVG version 8. It seems that a relatively few stalwart Jaws jockeys have
> >figured out how to use it with the Jaws cursor and a bunch of workarounds,
> >but the general consensus among the non-clever seems to be that it's not
> >what they want to hassle with.
> >
> >Meantime, my AVG Free Edition keeps on being updated daily, works okay when
> >I manually run a scan every few days, and has never displayed an update
> >notice and invitation to upgrade. Ever.  And believe me, some of my
> >programs
> >are not shy about that; every so often, Winamp presents an update dialogue
> >when it launches, a dialogue I can't touch with Jaws and which blocks my
> >access to the player's controls.
> >
> >I Curious to learn more,I went to the appropriate Grisoft page for the free
> >download of AVG, but the text around the download link doesn't say which
> >version the free version currently is. And then there's some promotional
> >information about Version 8, but I swear they refer to it as a security
> >suite, not just the simple antivirus program that's all I have and all I
> >want. And there's a table there that seems to indicate that they want $35
> >for the personal version and $55 for the company one. So how is this a
> >replacement for mine? But the mailing list people keep talking about this
> >stuff , and I just can't figure out what's happening from reading the
> >messages in these threads.
> >
> >I asked about this on JFW, and no one has replied. And I don't want to ask
> >on Blind Tech, because instead of a congenial, informative response from
> >someone who knows, the first reply will be from a certain person who feels
> >it incumbent upon him to lecture me about how I must not be a disciplined
> >Jaws user or I would know that you use this command to do this, and you
> >refer to this page element by that name, and how all blind computer users
> >must learn to avail themselves of tutorial material and learn the rudiments
> >of Windows and Jaws, yadda yadda. I'm serious. This person does this stuff,
> >this pedagogical pontificating, at the drop of a hat. So I can't write my
> >inquiry freely, as I've done here, and expect a friendly, straightforward
> >reply without overexplanation (another thing he always does) and a lecture.
> >I wrote him privately once and asked why he does this, and he said that he
> >knows that I may understand more than that about how to use my computer,
> >Windows, and Jaws, but he feels a responsibility to use every list question
> >as an opportunity to educate everyone, etc.
> >
> >Sorry to vent like this, but it's infuriating and frustrating. Because
> >Blind
> >Tech has the advantage of being high traffic and having a fair number of
> >sober, well informed subscribers, and so I feel badly about having to avoid
> >it. Oh, well.
> >
> >So , does anybody know what's up with AVG and its free editions? Am I okay
> >standing pat, so long as AVG doesn't send me a notice saying they won't be
> >updating the definitions for v. 7.5 anymore?
> >
> >thanks, all. Again, sorry for the rant. Please indulge me this one time.
> >Thanks a lot.
> >
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> >No virus found in this incoming message.
> >Checked by AVG.
> >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1401 - Release Date:
> >4/28/2008 7:18 AM
>
>
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