Mac OS X Snow Leopard – NotificationExec Pop Up Annoyance
by Byron Bennett / September 2nd, 2009
Just installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my home iMac. It was truly a perfectly painless experience…click about 4 buttons and type your password and walk away for 45 minutes.
The only thing that marred the experience was a nasty and undying popup for installing Rosetta so it could run NotificationExec. Click Not Now and it just comes back a few seconds later. Truly annoying!
A couple minutes on Google yielded this form post on MacRumors.
The answer for me was to navigate to /Library/Driver Support/ and to trash the NotificationExec.app in between the popups.
So, the steps are:
- Navigate to: /Library/Driver Support/ – you should see NotificationExec.app in that folder
- Go to Force Quit (Apple menu) and make sure there aren’t any instances of the popup hanging out
- Wait for the popup and click: “Not Now”
- Then trash: NotificationExec.app
- You may have to enter your admin password so you can change Finder
- Empty trash and resume life!
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Byron
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October 10th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Byron,
Thank you so much for posting this. Just went through the process myself & it saved me!
December 1st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Thanx man… that really helped… those popups were so annoying… really appreciate it
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 am
Jacquie, bowie,
Welcome! Glad it helped someone…was driving me crazy!
December 27th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
This is happening to me, I have mac os x 10. 6 snow leopard on my macbook pro, but after I go to library, I can’t find driver support, or indeed anything dealing with the driver. Any advice?
January 16th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Wow. Thank you so much. This was about the most annoying thing I’ve ever experienced on a Mac.