I'm constantly taking my laptop from place to place, from hotspot to hotspot, and WinXP never tires of telling me about it in the form of an annoying dialog bubble.
I mean, do I really need to be told that my connection is out? Do I need to be told that there's no connection available after I physically disable the wireless antenna? Isn't that what the freaking icon in the taskbar is for?
This is annoying enough in itself, but wait -- there's more! (This is a Microsoft product we're talking about here, after all.) The notifications do not disappear or fade out. Ever. You have to manually get rid of them. Worse, hitting the "Wireless network not available" bubble launches the connection dialog, so in effect turning off my wireless antenna is a minute-long three-step process when if it were reasonably designed it would take one second. Unless of course I manage to hit the tiny X in the corner of the bubble, which isn't as simple a process as you'd think when you're desperately trying to keep up in a constitutional law class.
Phew. Felt good to get that out. Anyway, I'm sure I'm paying the price for buying from Averatec rather than Dell, HP, et al.
Can someone better versed in WinXP tell me how to disable the wireless notifications, or at least how to set them to fade after a few seconds? TweakUI won't do it, and beyond that I'm lost.
-HC-
I mean, do I really need to be told that my connection is out? Do I need to be told that there's no connection available after I physically disable the wireless antenna? Isn't that what the freaking icon in the taskbar is for?
This is annoying enough in itself, but wait -- there's more! (This is a Microsoft product we're talking about here, after all.) The notifications do not disappear or fade out. Ever. You have to manually get rid of them. Worse, hitting the "Wireless network not available" bubble launches the connection dialog, so in effect turning off my wireless antenna is a minute-long three-step process when if it were reasonably designed it would take one second. Unless of course I manage to hit the tiny X in the corner of the bubble, which isn't as simple a process as you'd think when you're desperately trying to keep up in a constitutional law class.
Phew. Felt good to get that out. Anyway, I'm sure I'm paying the price for buying from Averatec rather than Dell, HP, et al.
Can someone better versed in WinXP tell me how to disable the wireless notifications, or at least how to set them to fade after a few seconds? TweakUI won't do it, and beyond that I'm lost.
-HC-
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