Everytime I close my purchased CorelDRAW X8 copy, I get a nagging advertisement screen telling me to upgrade.
How can I stop this nagging screen from appearing?
NB: It's illegal to sell products to Germany showing such nagging screens without explicit consent and without option to easily opt-out of such consent.
community.coreldraw.com/.../how-to-disable-the-promotions-that-popup-before-the-program-loads
Unfortunately, this is different. I previously already disabled the "Corel Update Helper" tool. That tool is not the cause.
By running a debugging session I noticed that there is a tool called "MsMpEng.exe" that's pointing to the messages that appear:
Unfortuantely, that tool is part of "Windows Security", so I cannot disable it. But I will see if I can focus in on the process that's reaching out for these files.
Hopefully, a Windows Firewall setting will stop these messages from appearing. Or I may find a registry settings that's stopping these illegal attempts to advertise.
OK, I found a file called "Message.policy" at "C:\Users\Axel\AppData\Roaming\Corel\Messages\540238885_807001".
That files is a pure XML file (i.e. text file). I changed the first digit of the timestamp value from "1" to "2". Hopefully this will keep messages from appearing for the next 100 years or so.
I will keep you informed about the success of this measure.
you are amazing
Shortly after writing my message here, the mechanism seems to have changed. There is no "Message.policy" file anymore.
I found another solution now, yet, to make sure it'll work for a long period of time, I will only PM to interested users.