WhyPad » Mac OS X http://www.whypad.com Tips, tricks, and hacks for life and tech... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:21:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mac OS X Snow Leopard – NotificationExec Pop Up Annoyance http://www.whypad.com/posts/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-notificationexec-pop-up-annoyance/732/ http://www.whypad.com/posts/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-notificationexec-pop-up-annoyance/732/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:53:33 +0000 Byron Bennett http://www.whypad.com/?p=732 snowleopardJust 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:

  1. Navigate to: /Library/Driver Support/   – you should see NotificationExec.app in that folder
  2. Go to Force Quit (Apple menu) and make sure there aren’t any instances of the popup hanging out
  3. Wait for the popup and click:  “Not Now”
  4. Then trash:  NotificationExec.app
  5. You may have to enter your admin password so you can change Finder
  6. Empty trash and resume life!

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Byron

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