Since nothing is being done or answered in the stars software improvement thread regarding this, and taking into account the merciless spamming of the Isildur1 Showdown games lately, I'm exploring ways to deal with the annoying "News" window popping up at random when mass-grinding.

Having searched the forums, I've only found scripts that automatically close SNG/tournament lobby windows and "OK" message boxes, but not for the News Popup. Are there any existing scripts for this? Links would be superb then.

Anyway, I was thinking of something like this (not working script yet):

Could this work? (I'm not into AHK scripting at all)
Eventually, a working program could be written and named "Pokerstars News Popup Closer" and requested to be put on their allowed software list.

But perhaps scripts are not required to be reviewed by Stars?

I'm a newbie when it comes to scripting so please bear with me.. I've just had enough of the News Spamming of stuff i don't give a **** about when 24-tabling.

Loop
{
Process ,Wait,PokerStars.exe
PsPid:=Errorlevel
WinWait,News Ahk_Pid %PsPid%
WinClose
}

Gotta love people just leaving a code snippet.

Are you using that? Are others using that? Does it work? Implications/Allowed? etc ec

10$ trough stars my roll is 0$ there , will do it in 10mins

what?

Anyway, I'm wondering: Is this script allowed? Or are many of you using AHK scripts and just hope/assume they are allowed?

randomuser1, I've written/used alot of ahk scripts, any soft that automates things you can do yourself is permitted, any soft that gives you advice on your play/makes decisions for you in real time is prohibited.

Okay, makes sense. But how do Stars differentiate good from bad scripts?
If I were them, I would simply check for any running scripts, analyze them (or even copy), and go from there (in order to get some sort of control).

Anyone knows?

Better send them a mail on support and ask them

Does anyone use this (or similar) ?

bump

anyone?!
no reason to withhold this info now 8)

Those darn News Popups are still ruining my sessions =\
Anyone know a workaround?

there is also My News