Q Hi Tod, here’s my question: I keep Groupwise open all day and every time someone sends me an email, it pops up a stupid little message telling me who it’s from. I find them really distracting. I know I can turn the Notify program off, but every once in a while it’s helpful. Is there a happy medium? Signed: Ticked-Off by Pop-Ups.

A Dear Ticked-Off, there are a couple of things you can do to help quiet Groupwise down. First, the pop-up function is a separate program from Groupwise itself. It’s called Groupwise Notify and it runs in your “System Tray” (the little region to the left of the time in the lower-right corner of your screen).

Take a look at this picture:

If you right-click on that Groupwise icon, you can click Exit to make Notify go away until you reboot next. If you want it gone for good, remove it from the Startup folder of your Start Menu. But you asked about a happy medium. So instead of clicking Exit, click Options. You’ll get a screen that looks something like this:

Here, you can change how often Notify checks for new mail for you. A lot of people have this thing set for every minute. No wonder they’re going batty! Set it for five minutes. Or 30. You may also want to reduce the amount of time the little window stays open, by changing the number in the box below.

But there’s an even better trick. Here’s how you can keep the pop-ups silent unless you get a high-priority internal email. Click on the “Notify” tab on the top and make sure that only the top two checkboxes are checked, as in below:

If you don’t want the Ding noise, take the checkbox in the second box out. Now, you’ll only get a pop-up from Groupwise when someone from inside CBC sends you a high-priority email. Much easier on the sanity.

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