Where do warnings go?

[Rick at Folk U.S.A.]

Not even sure how to ask the question. I guess I'm talking about warnings. An
exapmle, actually specifically, is I started using Corel Paint Shop Pro X with
my Windows 7 Professional 64 bit machine. I have the color set to True Color, 32
bit on my Dell U2410 monitor. When I'd launch PSP, a message would come up that
something about the color settings in Windows would change while I used the
program, then set themselves back when I closed the program. After a few times,
and seeing there was no apparent problems and all worked well, I checked the box
to "Not show this again". Now I want to know more specifically what it said and
try and figure out why it's doing what it does. When I launch the program, the
screen blinks once. When I close the program, it blinks once again. What I'd
like to know is how can I go back and if possible "uncheck" the box that kept
coming up so I can read the warning again. I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks.

 

[DanS]

Rick at Folk U.S.A. wrote in

Not even sure how to ask the question. I guess I'm talking
about warnings. An exapmle, actually specifically, is I
started using Corel Paint Shop Pro X with my Windows 7
Professional 64 bit machine. I have the color set to True
Color, 32 bit on my Dell U2410 monitor. When I'd launch
PSP, a message would come up that something about the color
settings in Windows would change while I used the program,
then set themselves back when I closed the program. After a
few times, and seeing there was no apparent problems and
all worked well, I checked the box to "Not show this
again". Now I want to know more specifically what it said
and try and figure out why it's doing what it does. When I
launch the program, the screen blinks once. When I close
the program, it blinks once again. What I'd like to know is
how can I go back and if possible "uncheck" the box that
kept coming up so I can read the warning again. I'd
appreciate any insight. Thanks.

It is stored somewhere deep in the registry as a setting for the
application, just like any preferences are stored.

 

[johnbee]

in message

Not even sure how to ask the question. I guess I'm talking about warnings.
An
exapmle, actually specifically, is I started using Corel Paint Shop Pro X
with
my Windows 7 Professional 64 bit machine. I have the color set to True
Color, 32
bit on my Dell U2410 monitor. When I'd launch PSP, a message would come up
that
something about the color settings in Windows would change while I used
the
program, then set themselves back when I closed the program. After a few
times,
and seeing there was no apparent problems and all worked well, I checked
the box
to "Not show this again". Now I want to know more specifically what it
said and
try and figure out why it's doing what it does. When I launch the program,
the
screen blinks once. When I close the program, it blinks once again. What
I'd
like to know is how can I go back and if possible "uncheck" the box that
kept
coming up so I can read the warning again. I'd appreciate any insight.
Thanks.

I have not used that particular software, so can not give a specific answer.
However that type of behaviour in a program is very common - examples might
be to show 'tip of the day' on starting the program, which usually has a
cancel button and which several of the programs I use show, or 'Do you wish
to load the most recent file?' or 'Check for updates?'. If you look
carefully at all the menus and submenus you can usually find how to toggle
those things on and off. If all else fails, there might be a Corel PSP user
forum, and there will be a web site where you can get support of make
suggestions.

Corel software is probably carefully written but in general it is possible
that a programmer stores your settings,, selects the settings needed for the
program and puts up the message, irrespective of whether the settings will
actually be altered, which would of course still show the blinks. That
depends upon how carefully the designer specced the job. Incidentally, my
PC does not seem to have all those '32 bit true color' etc. setting things
which previous PCs and Windows versions all showed. It (and the video card
software) instead seems to have 'color calibration checking' which I have
never bothered with although I do fiddle around with the resolution when
necessary for some programs - that always seems to need a restart or at
least a logout and since what PSP does needs no such things it can not
matter much.

I think that the purpose of the message is to warn you that something is
being altered for the duration of the run, will be changed back at the end,
but if something nasty happens during the run you will be left with the
funny settings. It it were me wondering, I would start the program and then
engineer a forced shutdown to see what happens, but I have been told off
before in the group for daring to suggest such things because they are
'dangerous' (so they say). I wonder if you remember in the Hitchhiker's
Guide where the sign says 'Do not press this button'? I'm with Arthur Dent
on that one.

 

[Nil]

Not even sure how to ask the question. I guess I'm talking about
warnings. An exapmle, actually specifically, is I started using
Corel Paint Shop Pro X with my Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
machine. I have the color set to True Color, 32 bit on my Dell
U2410 monitor. When I'd launch PSP, a message would come up that
something about the color settings in Windows would change while I
used the program, then set themselves back when I closed the
program. After a few times, and seeing there was no apparent
problems and all worked well, I checked the box to "Not show this
again". Now I want to know more specifically what it said and try
and figure out why it's doing what it does. When I launch the
program, the screen blinks once. When I close the program, it
blinks once again. What I'd like to know is how can I go back and
if possible "uncheck" the box that kept coming up so I can read
the warning again. I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks.

It sounds like you're talking about the message that the program in
question conflicts with Aero, so Windows will disable Aero while that
program is running. I get same behavior in Vista when I run Paint Shop
Pro 9. In Vista, I get an information balloon at the system tray
whenever I run the program.

Maybe Windows 7 handles it a little differently and shows the message
in a different way. I don't know how to get the message back once
you've told it to go away permanently.

 

[Rick at Folk U.S.A.]

It sounds like you're talking about the message that the program in
question conflicts with Aero, so Windows will disable Aero while that
program is running. I get same behavior in Vista when I run Paint Shop
Pro 9. In Vista, I get an information balloon at the system tray
whenever I run the program.

Maybe Windows 7 handles it a little differently and shows the message
in a different way. I don't know how to get the message back once
you've told it to go away permanently.

Thanks. I think I recall seeing something about Aero and Basic. What does that
mean though? What is Aero and what is Basic? Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks again.

 

[Nil]

Thanks. I think I recall seeing something about Aero and Basic.
What does that mean though? What is Aero and what is Basic?
Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks again.

Aero is the fancy Vista/Windows 7 desktop manager theme, with the
transparency effects, fancy task switcher, and such. I believe "Basic"
is the simpler theme that doesn't use those fancy effects. My netbook
runs Windows 7 Starter, and it will only use the basic themes. Aero
isn't available.

Some programs, such as Paint Shop Pro, don't get along with the Aero
visual theme, so Windows automatically disables it while you're running
that particular program, then restore it when you quit the program.

You could probably manually change your theme to one of the non-Aero
ones and you might not get the switcheroo.