[jaimzedup]

I noticed the Microsoft Daemon starting up and running in the background. I searched the forums and read that it is an updating daemon for entourage. The previous threads instructed to just trash the file to prevent it from starting up. I am posting to get some confirmation of the exact file I should trash:

Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Alerts Daemon

Is that the correct file I should get rid of? Also, can someone tell me exactly what it does? If it updates my Office programs, how can I manually perform these updates in the future (after I delete the daemon)?

Thanks.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by jaimzedup:
I noticed the Microsoft Daemon starting up and running in the background. I searched the forums and read that it is an updating daemon for entourage. The previous threads instructed to just trash the file to prevent it from starting up. I am posting to get some confirmation of the exact file I should trash:

Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Alerts Daemon

Is that the correct file I should get rid of? Also, can someone tell me exactly what it does? If it updates my Office programs, how can I manually perform these updates in the future (after I delete the daemon)?

Thanks.

This daemon is somewhat like the cron daemon in Unix and Linux, it sits in the background and waits until a time at which you have something scheduled and then it launches and presents a notification. In this case, however, it is launching alerts regarding appointments in your Entourage calendar, not running system scripts like cron.

I'd just leave it running. If you never have any appointments it should never bug you.

edit: Post #2000

[jaimzedup]

edit: whoops, double post

[jaimzedup]

I rarely use Entourage and I'm just nitpicking about my RAM usage I guess. So is this safe to delete then? Or is there a way to stop it from running at startup?

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by jaimzedup:
I rarely use Entourage and I'm just nitpicking about my RAM usage I guess. So is this safe to delete then? Or is there a way to stop it from running at startup?

I think you can stop it by removing the "Microsoft Database Daemon" from your startup items in the Accounts pane of the system preferences.

[Raining Down in Texas]

In Office vX you need to select "Turn Off Office Notifications" from the Entourage menu or the daemon will restart and add itself to the login items every time you restart Entourage.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by Raining Down in Texas:
In Office vX you need to select "Turn Off Office Notifications" from the Entourage menu or the daemon will restart and add itself to the login items every time you restart Entourage.

I guess that would work better... Check out the "Entourage" menu:



Entourage 2004