What is the "Smartsound Quicktracks plugin" & why does SpywareBlaster
now require it?

Lately, every time I try to update SpywareBlaster 3.4 on Windows XP I
get a very annoying demand to install the "Smartsound Quicktracks"
plugin. The installation of Smartsound Quicktracks fails every time so
I've learned by trial and error to cancel it, then when it asks again,
to cancel it again - and only after those two cancels can I update my
SpywareBlaster database.

Does anyone know why SpywareBlaster is asking for this "Smartsound
Quicktracks" plugin?

What is a "Smartsound Quicktracks" plugin anway?

Is it good or bad for our PC?

Thank you in advance for your advice,
Susan

Susan Sharm <susanshaarm@yahoo.com> wrote:

It doesn't. I have SPyware Blaster 3.4, and it doesn't ask for Smartsound
Quicktracks plugin. Smartsound Quicktracks plugin is for Premiere Pro.

Susan Sharm wrote:
I have the same version and it doesn't happen to me.

Alias

I don't get any demands when I update SWB v3.4. You've got adware.

Solution: Clean out temporary files. Reboot.

In Options, configure CleanUp! in Custom CleanUp! mode to 'Empty
Recycle Bin', 'Scan local drves for temporary files', 'CleanUp! All
Users', and 'Fully Erase Files (Wipe Clean)'.

CleanUp!: http://home.comcast.net/~sgould4567/software/cleanup/

If that fails to work, delete Java applications and applets.

If you have Premier Pro on your machine, as pointed out by CARP, then
it's default configured to check for updates/plugins.

Turning those option(s) off will fix the issue.

J-Walker wrote:
I ran CleanUp! which first flushed a loud toilet sound, startling me,
and then proceeded to wipe out all my files in c:\tmp which I was
saving to go through. Yikes! This program is nice but it should pop up
a dialog box saying "You will lose all files and folders that have
"tmp" in the name - Do you want to still proceed?".

When it said it would remove temporary files, I thought that meant
C:\TEMP (which I never use for this reason). I store all my data that I
am working on temporarily in c:\tmp which is gone now. Oh well. It
saved me the hassle of going through to separate the wheat from the
chaff (like all my incoming photos of the grandchildren). I can ask for
them again

At the end of CleanUp! before logging out, it said:
.... blah blah blah ...
'Run MRU' list - removed from the registry.
Telnet's MRU list - removed from the registry.
CleanUp! 4.0 recovered 15.1 MB of disk space from 823 files.
CleanUp! finished on 11/07/05 09:56:54.

But the problem of Adobe Premier Pro wanting to launch something when I
update SpywareBlaster seems to remain. I wonder if my kid did something
to my computer!

Susan

=== it is wise to password protect the admin. account and creat a
limited user account for other people (kids) so they can't install
stuff =========

J-Walker wrote:
It seems from googling that this is an astute assumption as many people
have this problem and some have said it's related to Adobe Premier Pro.
Most (all?) the posts I found by googling seem to say they didn't
install Adobe Premier Pro (I don't even know what it is so I am pretty
sure I never installed it). I asked my son and he said he didn't touch
my computer so I don't think it was him anymore.

Somehow, Adobe Premier Pro is mixed up with SpywareBlaster in some
incestuous way and that's what the problem seems to be. I looked in
both the "Program Files" directory and "My Programs" (where I install
everything) and the only Adobe I see is for Acrobat. Same with the
Start Menu.

In the Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs console,
the only Adobe products listed are Acrobat and the updates to Acrobat.
Oh my! I see, looking further down, there is a listing for "SmartSound
Quicktracks Plugin". Hmm. Where did that come from!

Unfortunately, I clicked "Change/Remove" a dozen times and all that
happened each time was a message saying "InstallShield Wizard"
"SmartSound QuickTracks PlugIn SetUp is preparing the InstallShield
Wizard which will guide you though the program setup process. Please
wait". But nothing happened each time.

It's interesting how one computer problem cascades into another and
another until the problem is resolved (honestly, I don't know how you
guys do this stuff). I guess my question has just now morphed into a
question about how to really uninstall a program.

Is there a WinXP program uninstaller out there that will really
uninstall this program?

Thank you in advance,
Susan

Far Canal wrote:
Yes, Far Canal, it is very interesting how some programs have defaults
which are counterintuitive to the operation of others. We learn from
everything we do!

The use of "c:\tmp" to store temporary files is extremely common in the
UNIX world where in the olden days, tmp wasn't cleared upon rebooting
(nowadays on some UNIX systems, tmp is cleared upon rebooting but most
UNIX servers I've used don't reboot more than once a year or so so the
/tmp directory is often used to store data for months). On a PC,
neither C:\TEMP nor c:\tmp are cleaned upon reboot but C:\TEMP gets so
much Microsoft crap stored in it that c:\tmp is the only reliable way
of maintaining your own temporary files directory.

Same with Program Files (I store all my programs in "C:\My Programs".
Likewise with "Documents and Settings" (I store all my important data
in "C:\My Data".

By storing my important programs hierarchically in a very well defined
order in "C:\My Programs", by saving my important data hierarchically
in an organized fashion by task (not company marketing names, which are
useless) in "C:\My Data", and by temporarily storing my working copies
in well organized sub directories of "C:\Tmp", I avoid the common
confusion that occurs because Microsoft and other programs store tons
of crap in a confusing array ridiculously flat "C:\Program Files"
directories, ludicrous marketing terms scattered about the horridly
complex "C:\Documents and Settings" hierarchy, and absolutelly
unintelligable crap in the C:\TEMP directory.

My corresponding directories are clean, well organized, and above all,
simple and intuitive.

Back to the problem at hand. It seems it has morphed to how to really
remove a program from Windows XP when the InstallShield installer fails
to do so.

I just found a listing for "SmartSound Quicktracks Plugin" in the
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs console. Maybe
my kid did install something, after all!

Unfortunately, I clicked "Change/Remove" a dozen times and all that
happened each time was a message saying "InstallShield Wizard"
"SmartSound QuickTracks PlugIn SetUp is preparing the Install Shield
Wizard which will guide you though the program setup process. Please
wait". But nothing happened each time and that message goes away.

It's interesting how one computer problem cascades into another and
another until the problem is resolved (honestly, I don't know how you
guys do this stuff). I guess my question has just now morphed into a
question about how to really uninstall a program.

Is there a WinXP program uninstaller out there that will really
uninstall this program?

Thank you in advance,
Susan

Susan Sharm wrote:

Maybe uninstalling and reinstalling SWB it will correct the problem?

"Susan Sharm" <susanshaarm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1131382109.967333.18010@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

Susan

I had the same problem a few weeks ago.

Updating SpywareBlaster 3.4 would bring up the Smartsound Quicktracks
installation window.

In my case I traced Smartsound Quicktracks to Ulead's Video Studio 9 that I
have on my system.

Smartsound Quicktracks is an Audio component of Video Studio that allows the
addition of automatically generated background music to your Video.
To be honest I don't at this point have a lot of idea how it works as I've
only recently got VS9, more to the point how the two got crosslinked is even
more of a mystery.

Now unfortunately I can't remember precisely how I 'fixed' it but I vaguely
remember either just persisting with the updates in Spyware Blaster & it
came right or I uninstalled Spyware Blaster & reinstalled after a reboot.

Regards
Paul.

"PC" <abuse@local.host> wrote in message
news:NPQbf.1549$xD6.92410@news.xtra.co.nz...
Cancel that should have been to the OP

Paul.

"Susan Sharm" <susanshaarm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1131382109.967333.18010@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

Susan

I had the same problem a few weeks ago.

Updating SpywareBlaster 3.4 would bring up the Smartsound Quicktracks
installation window.

In my case I traced Smartsound Quicktracks to Ulead's Video Studio 9 that I
have on my system.

Smartsound Quicktracks is an Audio component of Video Studio that allows the
addition of automatically generated background music to your Video.
To be honest I don't at this point have a lot of idea how it works as I've
only recently got VS9, more to the point how the two got crosslinked is even
more of a mystery.

Now unfortunately I can't remember precisely how I 'fixed' it but I vaguely
remember either just persisting with the updates in Spyware Blaster & it
came right or I uninstalled Spyware Blaster & reinstalled after a reboot.

Regards
Paul.

"Susan Sharm" <susanshaarm@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1131382109.967333.18010@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...

Susan

I had the same problem a few weeks ago.

Updating SpywareBlaster 3.4 would bring up the Smartsound Quicktracks
installation window.

In my case I traced Smartsound Quicktracks to Ulead's Video Studio 9 that I
have on my system.

Smartsound Quicktracks is an Audio component of Video Studio that allows the
addition of automatically generated background music to your Video.
To be honest I don't at this point have a lot of idea how it works as I've
only recently got VS9, more to the point how the two got crosslinked is even
more of a mystery.

Now unfortunately I can't remember precisely how I 'fixed' it but I vaguely
remember either just persisting with the updates in Spyware Blaster & it
came right or I uninstalled Spyware Blaster & reinstalled after a reboot.

Regards
Paul.

"Evan Platt" <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
news:qcqvm19viuipqmnkih3310e8kaa3hv5n07@4ax.com...

Evan

Yes weird that, first time I thought I must have had the lower post
highlighted.
So I posted the apology as above and reposted to the OP's post, ended up
here again.
OK so lets make absolutely sure I have the OP's original post highlighted
and showing in the view pane, yep, repost.
Well dang me it's ended up down here again.
Sigh, that's it, I give up.

:-)

Paul.

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