RockyJ Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 everytime I start SS, it inserts this program as a registry entry to run on startup.I don't care if this is vital to survival of mankind, an automatic program boot should be the option of the user, period, no if and or buts.Has anyone found a way to remove this permanent from a windows system?So far I seem to have defeated the invader by making the entry blank in the registry but keeping the key name. I'll post further if there is other interest. It may be necessary for some people but I only copy recorded wav files from md to the computer and nothing else and I haven't found it to affect this operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 everytime I start SS, it inserts this program as a registry entry to run on startup.I don't care if this is vital to survival of mankind, an automatic program boot should be the option of the user, period, no if and or buts.Has anyone found a way to remove this permanent from a windows system?So far I seem to have defeated the invader by making the entry blank in the registry but keeping the key name. I'll post further if there is other interest. It may be necessary for some people but I only copy recorded wav files from md to the computer and nothing else and I haven't found it to affect this operation.Gotta love Sony's lovely abbreviations like OMG and SSAAD So apt If you try a start-up program like Sysinternals Autoruns, and click the Everything tab, under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run in that list you should see SsAAD.exe there and be able to disable it by unchecking the box, so next time Windows starts up, it won't load. Not quite sure what its purpose is yet, but seems to named the SonicStage Atrac Hard Disk Monitor. Hmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Even after removing all references to SSAAD.EXE, the next time you run SonicStage, it will put SSAAD.EXE back into your startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Even after removing all references to SSAAD.EXE, the next time you run SonicStage, it will put SSAAD.EXE back into your startup.Ah! Bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones52 Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 you can block startup programs using msantispyware so it doesnt come back. if you use msconfig it will come back next time you run sonicstage. Prob not reccomended tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Anyone try searching the registry or whatnot for SSAAD references? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 I guess more than anything else, I'm interested in finding out what exactly it's purpose is. I mean, with it removed from startup SonicStage seems to still work fine. At least for my purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyJ Posted January 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 to elaborate, the thing can be rid of by entering an empty value in the registry.This is in my win98 and I am not sure where it goes in xp but this may work there also[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]"SsAAD.exe"=""If you can access the registry and navigate to this key then just enter the empty string for the value. I can attach a reg file to do it but I worry about those not familiar with this level of computer tweaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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