Totally getting peed royally

[Acorn]

OK behzad, I am not quite yet in the same position but I have v17 and v18 installed and I have very few remaining days to await the end of my Update Service. Rah!
Which reminds me, I better check the rubbish in my Xara Online account as it will disappear sometime this year.

I assume you too have v17 nagging you as Magix is being really kind to let you know you might be missing out. This is better than never being told as some Customers were never advised of major version jumps in the past.

Here is how I would block the nag.
You cannot right-click it directly to see its Properties but it has a Taskbar presence so right-click on its icon.
My current nag states it is Updater.
Right-click that and then pick Properties.

The Properties dialog declares this is Service_rel_u_x64_vc12.exe running from C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\17\UPS\.
All I do is change the UPS folder to UPSXXX and no nag.

Magix also have its Download Manager hiding in an Online folder; I OnlineXXX that folder as well.

Clearly you can be more surgical but Magix deserves a sledgehammer action.

Acorn

[handrawn]

but Magix deserves a sledgehammer

you may just have hit the nail upon the head....

[Boy]

Just to be clear: the nag screen for updating to v. 18 shows in XDP 18 with a full year of update service still ahead! So, it's not even possible to update or extend the update service.

It seems to me that Acorn's fix is not advisable in such a situation because any coming updates under the update service will be missed.

[Acorn]

Just to be clear: the nag screen for updating to v. 18 shows in XDP 18 with a full year of update service still ahead! So, it's not even possible to update or extend the update service.

It seems to me that Acorn's fix is not advisable in such a situation because any coming updates under the update service will be missed.

Boy, I was advising blocking v17 when you also had v18 active as in behzad's case.

Previously, I have fully described the impact of blocking Magix's intrusion.

Acorn

[siran]

Just to add some words about my 'User experience' to this:
My nagging screens started the day the 'Update service' expired (in the begining of december 2020). I never got a "Don't show again" check box. Clicked them away for months, hoping to get a check box when a new version is released.
That hope vanished in march.
Then pulled the plug by blocking Xara with the Windows firewall as one of you nice guys recommended.
No nags since then.
Can't insert 'Font awesome' symbols anymore (along with anything else from the online content catalogue), but "SO WHAT"!

[behzad]

Prior to blocking you could have right click and download each of the content folders to your drive, then you would not need to access it other than the photos I guess.

Just to add some words about my 'User experience' to this:
My nagging screens started the day the 'Update service' expired (in the begining of december 2020). I never got a "Don't show again" check box. Clicked them away for months, hoping to get a check box when a new version is released.
That hope vanished in march.
Then pulled the plug by blocking Xara with the Windows firewall as one of you nice guys recommended.
No nags since then.
Can't insert 'Font awesome' symbols anymore (along with anything else from the online content catalogue), but "SO WHAT"!

[behzad]

@Acorn you are very helpful as always, but this nag skin is getting skin deep.

[siran]

In V17.1 an error message 'You need to be online to use this feature' is shown.
That was not the case in V12 I'm quite sure.

[Acorn]

Can't insert 'Font awesome' symbols anymore (along with anything else from the online content catalogue), but "SO WHAT"!

If it is important to anyone then download Microsoft's Character Map UWP (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/ch...ot:overviewtab).
As Xara provides Fontawesome as a TT Font, you can use CharMap and FA with a search term or Unicode to access 704 characters.
You can copy it as a character or save as an SVG and drop onto your page.

I have always found this blocking very petty, which drove me to Xara Pro+.

Acorn

[jaydear]

I successfully blocked the unwelcome Magix intrusion by blocking the aforementioned service exe in my firewall software (Windows10FirewallControl)