I bought a Kodak camera that came with software to download photos to my computer and also display them. I guess it works well enough, but every day or two a Kodak popup ad appears in the middle of whatever I am doing. I have run spybot and ad-aware frequently. I don’t want to uninstall the main Kodak program, but I sure would like to get rid of the popup. Anyone know how?
Remind not to buy anything from Kodak again. Don’t they realize that these things can have the opposite effect of driving potential customers away? Incidentally, the ads are often in Japanese.
Not only are there no such options, the popup itself has no off button. It goes away by itself after maybe a half minute. But there is no way of hurrying it off.
I had something similar with Kodak EasyShare. I ended up firstly disabling the program’s access to the Internet – and once I had XP, ditching the program altogether. Way too much hassle.
I think there is a program in the Kodak package that contacts the head office via the 'Net for update info. If you can find it, ditch the thing.
The software is Kodak EasyShare.
I never paid attention to what it said (half the time it is in Japanese).
I have never gotten anywhere contacting companies. They almost always ignore me or send an automated “We will reply” and don’t. A company that would such a popup without even a close button is obviously not interested in customer satisfaction.
Click Start/Run, type MSCONFIG, click OK. When the **System Configuration Utility ** appears, click on the **Startup ** tab. In the list of startup files, locate any containing references to Kodak or Easyshare. Remove the check mark next to each by clicking on it. Click OK, and click Yes when asked if you want to restart your computer. This should prevent the program from launching at startup, but you can still run it from an icon on your desktop, or from the Start Menu.
What Fear Itself says. If after that the thing still pops up, you really should then uninstall the Kodak program. There are many good programs, several free, that will let you manipulate photos.
If you are brave and have time, you could try re-installing the program, but very carefully looking over each screen to see if there is a box you can uncheck to prevent this popup.
In either case, after un-installing the program, do a Search for “Kodak” and delete every folder and/or program that shows up. Reboot.
If after all this, it still pops up, don’t despair, you don’t have ghosts, it probably means that something is in your Registry that needs removing.
Here you’ve got to be really careful. Don’t do this if you don’t know how to back up the Registry first and then search it. If you do, after backing it up, just do a search in the Registry for “Kodak” and delete every instance of it. If you don’t want to risk messing with the Registry, maybe you can find some geek friend who will do it for you.
If you think all this is bad, try gettting rid of AOL sometime.
Good luck, if you have any other questions, let us know.
USB readers for your camera’s memory are pretty cheap, like less then $20 dollars, use native drivers so they show up as file folders so your camera memory can be also used to store feel to take around with you.
It appears that Win2000 does not have a program called msconfig (or one of its components). However, using the above as a clue, I looked at startup under programs and, sure enough, there was something called kodak upgrade. The Kodak EasyShare program itself also runs under startup and I have, for the time being, left it. Incidentally, I mentioned above that I hadn’t looked at it, but it was indeed trying to sell me an upgrade.
Why does EasyShare run at startup? Well, when I attach the USB cable from the camera to the computer, it automatically runs, so I assume that is the reason. There is an icon on the desktop so that is not crucial.
Ah. Win2K is an anomaly; Win98, WinMe & WinXP have MSCONFIG, Win2K does not, who knows why. The good news is you can download a version of MSCONFIG (from WinXP) that will run on Win2K.
That is correct. You will notice that now that you have disabled the startup program, it won’t automatically launch when you connect your camera.
