Tea Timer popups
Every time a registry change occurs, TeaTimer pops up a notification... which is great, but is there a way for me to tell it that on some approved ones or all approved ones, I do not want to see these alerts. And how can I change the currently approved ones from alerting if so?
There is no way to keep those pop-up notifications from being issued if an actual registry change is made. However, you may be able to eliminate many of the pop-ups if you are getting at lot of them at system startup.
TeaTimer takes snapshots of Registry entries and compares these with the Registry at startup. Until these snapshots are updated you are likely to get pop-ups (primarily at startup) of changes you made in the past. In other words, TeaTimer attempts to return the Registry to the state it was in when the snapshot was taken. To refresh TeaTimer's snapshot files:
- Right click Spybot's TeaTimer System Tray Icon > click Exit Spybot-S&D Resident.
- TeaTimer closes.
- TeaTimer's snapshot files are refreshed at this time.
- Restart TeaTimer:
- Using Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy.
- Double click TeaTimer.exe to start it.
Teatime popup trouble
When the popups come up for me a Get a little click box at the left that says remember this chance and just get a long blank bar on the right that all it seems to do is toggle the box on the left and seems like there is no way out.
I have updated to the latest version
Tom
tdstead:
I believe that codito was referring to the pop-up notifications that appear in the lower right-hand corner of the screen and disappear after a few seconds.
You appear to be talking about TeaTimer's registry change dialog that says "Spybot - Search & Destroy has detected an important registry entry that has been changed" and must be answered.
There is currently a bug in TeaTimer 1.4. Portions of TeaTimer's pup-up dialog overlay the "Allow change" and "Deny change" buttons. On my system the very top edges of the "Allow change" and "Deny change" buttons are showing and I am still able to select the options. I also can check "Remember this decision" since it is visible. If no portion of the "Allow change" and "Deny change" buttons are showing you can answer TeaTimer's popup dialog (English language version) by pressing "A" on your keyboard for "Allow change" or "D" for "Deny change". If you can't deal with the problem until it is fixed, you can disable TeaTimer as follows:
- Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Resident.
- Uncheck the following:
- Resident "TeaTimer" (Protection of over-all system settings) Active.
MD: could you expand on this "error with version 1.4" Teatimer? I just logged into Spybot forum to find a solution. I have W2K Pro where this is happening the icons for add/deny are blanked out and I cannot tell TeaTimer to do either. I did turn TeaTimer off but one of the registry changes may be the culprit on an event error 11 ( in control panel) that it denied. Oh if I click on the exit for the box it denies whatever it popped up for.
I'm not into touching the registry but could you advise how to accept the registry change that TeaTimer denied? (it was on a software update).
Otherwise love this little program Spybot has.
Thanks!
I'll try to present a visual aid, but the limits of attaching thumbnails to this new forum are quite limited (I need 47 kb but the limit is 39.1 kb). So in the attachment I have attempted to depict what the old pop-up looked like (TeaTimer 1.3) and what the bottom of the new one (TeaTimer 1.4) actually looks like.Originally Posted by pamspam
The buttons for "Allow change" and "Deny change" are not presented properly. As I indicated, if no portions of the Allow change" and "Deny change" are visible so that you can click on an edge of them:I hope this helps explain the problem and the workaround for the problem.
Last edited by md usa spybot fan; 2005-10-24 at 23:43.
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The fix is posted here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=122
But as far as the lower right-hand popups go, does anyone know if there's a way to use reshacker to modify the size and/or time of these popups? Zone Alarm now also has popups and it seems that every few minutes I'm looking at a popup in the corner of the screen, and always something that's ok. Tea-timer even gives me a popup to tell me that it's allowed a registry change from something on my white list. I put it on the white list. I don't need a popup to tell me about it. Popups are advertising, and I get enough of that as it is.
Now that I think about it, I can experiment with reshacker, and if I wreck something, I can simply reinstall.
I should also mention, just in case this post is setting the wrong tone, that I like Spybot S&D a lot, and donate money once a year. Love Spybot, hate popups.
Tea Timer Fix?
The same problem of Allow or Deny buttons being blocked has been appearing in the forum since at least 2005. Spybot team members keep reporting it will be fixed. This is damaging my system by allowing changes I don't want. Also do not see an answer to the question of how to add or remove from white list or black list. This is otherwise such a good program. Team Spybot, please help. Thanks. Stan
Stanton (Stan):
There is currently a bug in TeaTimer 1.4. Portions of TeaTimer's popup dialog overlay the "Allow change" and "Deny change" buttons. On my system the very top edges of the "Allow change" button (on the left) and "Deny change" button (on the right) are showing and I am still able to select the options. I also can check "Remember this decision" since it is visible. If no portion of the "Allow change" and "Deny change" buttons are showing, you can answer TeaTimer's popup dialog (English language version) by pressing "A" on your keyboard for "Allow change" or "D" for "Deny change". Note: If you close the dialog without answering "Allow change" or "Deny change" the registry change is denied.
If you can't deal with the problem that way until it is fixed, you can:
- Apply one of the workarounds found in the following pinned (Sticky) thread that fixes the pop-up dialog so the buttons are visible:
- Solution to fix the pop-ups in TeaTimer
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=122
There are three (3) fixes published in that thread. They are:
- The ResHacker fix published by ElPiedra here:
- The murdo patch published here:
Also republished by RuggeR29 (which I have never tried) here:
- The patch originally by SyreneD that I published here:
Also republished by SyreneD himself here:
- Disable TeaTimer as follows:
- Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Resident.
- Uncheck the following:
- Resident "TeaTimer" (Protection of over-all system settings) Active.
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Notes about the patches (b. and c. above):
- If you installed Spybot in the default location:
- C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy
The following patch (c.) defaults to that location:
If you use this patch (b.) you have to navigate to the correct location (See Note #1) unless you execute the patch from within the "C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy" folder:
The new TeaTimer program is currently being tested. See the following post (also in the pinned (Sticky) thread mentioned above:
If you checked "Remember this decision" on a change the information concerning that change it is stored in a file. TeaTimer uses that information to automatically "Allow" or "Deny" changes. To edit this information:[LIST]Right click on the TeaTimer system tray icon and select Settings. This will bring up TeaTimer's "White & Black List". There are four (4) Buttons across the top of the "White & Black List":
- Allowed processes
- Blocked processes
- Allowed registry changes
- Blocked registry changes
Note: If you don't see all four buttons, try expanding the window to the right.
You can review all the entries that you have stored by clicking on these buttons. The entries that you should review are in "Allowed registry changes" and "Blocked registry changes". You can delete entries by clicking on the scripted black "X" to the right of the entry that you want to delete and then clicking the "OK" button when you're done. This will in effect make TeaTimer forget what you told it to remember so that during future changes to these items TeaTimer will issue a pop-up dialog rather then just a notification pop-up.
Last edited by md usa spybot fan; 2006-10-30 at 18:49.
Getting an answer is one thing, learning is another.
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition running on a 2.40GHz IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 Processor with 512 MB of RAM and a 533 MHz System Bus.
ok - I know I'm late on this!
Apparently I'm behind the times.I have version 1.4 and recently enabled Resident (it hadn't been). Consequently It denied changes when I updated a NVDIA video driver and Java. This forum suggests getting version 1.5 - but I'd like to fix (allow) the recent changes that were denied.
Yes, indeed. So how do I allow the change now?
These lists are empty - they have no entries. However, the log file does list the denied changes but I'm unclear on whether I can make the registry changes manually. Here's the most recent:
10/13/2007 6:43:09 PM Denied value "{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0003-ABCDEFFEDCBA}" (new data: "") added in ActiveX Distribution Unit!
10/13/2007 6:43:36 PM Denied value "SunJavaUpdateSched" (new data: ""C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\jusched.exe"") changed in System Startup global entry!
Thanks!
Daren
Last edited by dclineattamu; 2007-10-14 at 03:27.
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