Sonic Update Manager

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Preston Hamlin

For the last few days, every morning when I start up my computer, the Sonic
Update Manager pops up and asks for a disk that I do not even think exists.
Whenever I try to close the first window, the progress bar starts up, and in
less than a second, the error window pops up again. I am stoping the loop
with the Task Manager. I have read previous threads and already know the
obvious solution of removing it, but I do not know how important this is to
my computer. I have recently downloaded a bunch of updates from Microsoft,
but this came about from an automatic update.
Is Sonic an important or powerful program? Do I suffer without it?
 
Preston Hamlin wrote:
> For the last few days, every morning when I start up my computer,
> the Sonic Update Manager pops up and asks for a disk that I do not
> even think exists. Whenever I try to close the first window, the
> progress bar starts up, and in less than a second, the error window
> pops up again. I am stoping the loop with the Task Manager. I have
> read previous threads and already know the obvious solution of
> removing it, but I do not know how important this is to my
> computer. I have recently downloaded a bunch of updates from
> Microsoft, but this came about from an automatic update.
> Is Sonic an important or powerful program? Do I suffer without it?

Do you create CD/DVDs?

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No.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Preston Hamlin wrote:
> > For the last few days, every morning when I start up my computer,
> > the Sonic Update Manager pops up and asks for a disk that I do not
> > even think exists. Whenever I try to close the first window, the
> > progress bar starts up, and in less than a second, the error window
> > pops up again. I am stoping the loop with the Task Manager. I have
> > read previous threads and already know the obvious solution of
> > removing it, but I do not know how important this is to my
> > computer. I have recently downloaded a bunch of updates from
> > Microsoft, but this came about from an automatic update.
> > Is Sonic an important or powerful program? Do I suffer without it?
>
> Do you create CD/DVDs?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>
 
No, but I do burn a few CDs to give some people files of mine.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Preston Hamlin wrote:
> > For the last few days, every morning when I start up my computer,
> > the Sonic Update Manager pops up and asks for a disk that I do not
> > even think exists. Whenever I try to close the first window, the
> > progress bar starts up, and in less than a second, the error window
> > pops up again. I am stoping the loop with the Task Manager. I have
> > read previous threads and already know the obvious solution of
> > removing it, but I do not know how important this is to my
> > computer. I have recently downloaded a bunch of updates from
> > Microsoft, but this came about from an automatic update.
> > Is Sonic an important or powerful program? Do I suffer without it?
>
> Do you create CD/DVDs?
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>
 
Sonic Update Manager is part of the program Sonic MyDVD which you use to
burn your CDs if you didn't buy it it probably came installed as a bundle
included with your CD/DVD drive.
It is probably checking to see if there are any updates for the program that
you have installed, it doesn't happen with me and I can't remember how I
stopped it checking but if you don't intend upgrading the program have a
look in the options or preferences of it to see if you can stop it that way.

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"Preston Hamlin" <PrestonHamlin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32B99BF6-D26A-4EA0-AFAA-1992AB5DBADE@microsoft.com...
> No, but I do burn a few CDs to give some people files of mine.
>
> "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
>
>> Preston Hamlin wrote:
>> > For the last few days, every morning when I start up my computer,
>> > the Sonic Update Manager pops up and asks for a disk that I do not
>> > even think exists. Whenever I try to close the first window, the
>> > progress bar starts up, and in less than a second, the error window
>> > pops up again. I am stoping the loop with the Task Manager. I have
>> > read previous threads and already know the obvious solution of
>> > removing it, but I do not know how important this is to my
>> > computer. I have recently downloaded a bunch of updates from
>> > Microsoft, but this came about from an automatic update.
>> > Is Sonic an important or powerful program? Do I suffer without it?
>>
>> Do you create CD/DVDs?
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>>
>>
 
Preston Hamlin wrote:
> No, but I do burn a few CDs to give some people files of mine.

Control Panel --> Add or Remove Programs --> locate and remove the Sonic
Update Manager... If you just remove that component - it will leave all
other Sonic/Roxio software alone and the only thing you miss out on is
automagical updates - which you obviously are not getting now anyway.

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LOL, so that's a yes then...

"Preston Hamlin" <PrestonHamlin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32B99BF6-D26A-4EA0-AFAA-1992AB5DBADE@microsoft.com...
>
> No, but I do burn a few CDs to give some people files of mine.
>
> "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
>
>> Preston Hamlin wrote:
>> > For the last few days, every morning when I start up my computer,
>> > the Sonic Update Manager pops up and asks for a disk that I do not
>> > even think exists. Whenever I try to close the first window, the
>> > progress bar starts up, and in less than a second, the error window
>> > pops up again. I am stoping the loop with the Task Manager. I have
>> > read previous threads and already know the obvious solution of
>> > removing it, but I do not know how important this is to my
>> > computer. I have recently downloaded a bunch of updates from
>> > Microsoft, but this came about from an automatic update.
>> > Is Sonic an important or powerful program? Do I suffer without it?
>>
>> Do you create CD/DVDs?
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>>
>>
 
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