How to Disable Musicmatch Jukebox popup???

[Timothy Miller]

Hi,

I paid for a registered copy of MusicMatch Jukebox. It seems pretty
good... With one Hellish exception.

About every half an hour, regardless of what I am doing with my
computer, or which applications or documents are open, a musicMatch
dialog box pops up right in my face. It says, "MusicMatch is no longer
the default player for your music and video files." The default buttons
correct this misfortune, of course, and also, no doubt, prevent the
damned window from popping up.

This things make large roadside billboards seem tasteful by comparison.
It's obviously intended to make it harder for me to use competing products.

Task Manager says the name of the application in question is called
"Musicmatch Jukebox file associations."

Is there an option in the musicMatch applications that disables this
horror? If not, can I just remove mm_tray.exe? (This seems to be the
little "process" that causes this window to pop up, but I don't know if
it does other important things. It appears to reside in the Windows
"prefectch" folder.)

If that won't work, is there some other way to hack this thing into
oblivion?

No doubt I'm not the only Annoyed One. This is ridiculous for a company
that seems to value its brand name as much as MusicMatch does.

Suggestions welcome.


Tim Miller

 

[Mike J]

delete the program and return it for a refund. end of pop
up

 

[The Petrie Family]

Hi Tim,

I too use Musicmatch and am very happy with it. I did install SP2 and ran
into a problem accessing the Radio feature. I've since returned to SP1 and
everything is OK again.

Now onto what you wrote about. It sounds like you've got another program
competing with MM for control of your media files. Figuring out who is in a
tug of war with MM would help. You can blow away the mm_tray prog. I don't
let it load at startup and have no problems. I use Startup Monitor so that I
can stop various programs from adding themselves to my startup (very
handy!). You might also want to check the options in MM and see how they are
set for "reclaiming media files".

Good luck.

Cheers,
Stephen>

 

[Timothy Miller]

Hi Tim,

I too use Musicmatch and am very happy with it. I did install SP2 and ran
into a problem accessing the Radio feature. I've since returned to SP1 and
everything is OK again.

Now onto what you wrote about. It sounds like you've got another program
competing with MM for control of your media files. Figuring out who is in a
tug of war with MM would help. You can blow away the mm_tray prog. I don't
let it load at startup and have no problems. I use Startup Monitor so that I
can stop various programs from adding themselves to my startup (very
handy!). You might also want to check the options in MM and see how they are
set for "reclaiming media files".

Good luck.

Cheers,
Stephen

Hi Stephen,

Well, actually, I do use another sound editor, so it was my choice to
remove certain sound files from MM's control. MM is now demanding I turn
over control of all sound files on the hard disk back to MM.

I tried renaming mm-tray.exe. (It has a bunch of numbers and letters
after it.) That seemed simple enough. As I suspected it might, MM
created a new copy of that little app or "process." The mis-named old
file just sat there. The pop-ups continued. I guess I should rename or
remove the -tray.exe file again, and watch it to see when and how it
gets resurrected.

Startup manager seems like a good idea, too. Never heard of it. I
suppose it's a small download. How to get it from a reputable source,
though? Just what I need! A trojan horse called Startup Manager!
Suggestions?

What about naming an empty text file mm-tray.exe (plus all those numbers
after it)? If it exists, maybe MM won't try to replace it. Could cause a
crash, though. I guess I have a lot to learn.

Is there such a thing as a dummy .exe file? I.e., a file that Windows
determines is a genuine .exe file, but that does absolutely nothing? I'd
have to be sure it's not a trojan horse, or something. How would I know?

Sigh... I guess I have a lot to learn.

Maybe I'll have to give in and allow MM to take control of all my sound
files, just to avoid the nuisance. It's so offensive, I'm reluctant to
do it, though.


Cheers,


Tim Miller

 

[Rock]

Hi Stephen,

Well, actually, I do use another sound editor, so it was my choice to
remove certain sound files from MM's control. MM is now demanding I turn
over control of all sound files on the hard disk back to MM.

I tried renaming mm-tray.exe. (It has a bunch of numbers and letters
after it.) That seemed simple enough. As I suspected it might, MM
created a new copy of that little app or "process." The mis-named old
file just sat there. The pop-ups continued. I guess I should rename or
remove the -tray.exe file again, and watch it to see when and how it
gets resurrected.

Startup manager seems like a good idea, too. Never heard of it. I
suppose it's a small download. How to get it from a reputable source,
though? Just what I need! A trojan horse called Startup Manager!
Suggestions?

What about naming an empty text file mm-tray.exe (plus all those numbers
after it)? If it exists, maybe MM won't try to replace it. Could cause a
crash, though. I guess I have a lot to learn.

Is there such a thing as a dummy .exe file? I.e., a file that Windows
determines is a genuine .exe file, but that does absolutely nothing? I'd
have to be sure it's not a trojan horse, or something. How would I know?

Sigh... I guess I have a lot to learn.

Maybe I'll have to give in and allow MM to take control of all my sound
files, just to avoid the nuisance. It's so offensive, I'm reluctant to
do it, though.


Cheers,


Tim Miller

Just change the settings in the program itself. There is one for don't
reclaim media files...and another to not put an icon in the system tray.

 

[Timothy Miller]

Just change the settings in the program itself. There is one for don't
reclaim media files...and another to not put an icon in the system tray.

Oops! Thanks, Rock.

Looked for 'em. Overlooked 'em.

Have a nice week.

TM

 

[Rock]

Oops! Thanks, Rock.

Looked for 'em. Overlooked 'em.

Have a nice week.

TM

You're welcome.

 

[Boris Yankov]

Just change the settings in the program itself. There is one for don't
reclaim media files...and another to not put an icon in the system tray.

I suggest InControl Startup Manager.
Find it at http://www.virtuoza.com/InControl/product.php

 

[The Petrie Family]

Hi Tim,

Sorry, I never got your reply that Boris quotes below. Not sure where it
went!

Anyway, I use StatupMonitor from Mike Lin. All of 60 KB. It can be found
here http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml and runs like a top. Anything
that tries to add itself to your startup routine now has to ask for your
permission. great way to control all those guys that try to sneak in under
the radar including mm_tray. Good luck.

Cheers,
Stephen