<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">This site http://mystyleit.com/blogs/mystyleit/archive/2009/06/15/running-mecury-mail-as-a-service.aspx says: "Be careful not to start Mercury in the native app mode while the service is running, or you might make it angry. The best way to do it is to stop the service, launch Mercury, make your configuration changes, close Mercury, restart the service."</span></p><p>So, don't just start the GUI while the service is running. You should you the use the 'annoying' feature that you might have disabled to make configuration changes. Or stop the service prior to opening the GUI.</p>

<p>i have a question about an annoying popup that i keep getting.</p> <p> <img src="http://93.97.164.143/error.png" mce_src="http://93.97.164.143/error.png" alt=""></p> <p>hope the image works, im using windows 7 x86 and have installed xampp with no errors. everything seems to be working appart from this popup. if i close it then it will open again a few seconds later repeatedly. how can i fix this problem? thanks </p>

<p>The way services are run was changed in Windows Vista, and as a part of this <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Interactive Services Detection was introduced. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an answer from Microsoft on how to get rid of that message (regarding printer services in that case, but I presume the same should apply here):</span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><p style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><a href="http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/4fb82b0a-5e8c-4b8f-9991-650659e2ec7d" mce_href="http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/4fb82b0a-5e8c-4b8f-9991-650659e2ec7d">http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/4fb82b0a-5e8c-4b8f-9991-650659e2ec7d</a> </span></p></span><blockquote><span style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><i> Follow the steps below to turn off Interactive Services Detection:</i></span><p style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none;"><i><span style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">1. Right click on computer</span></i></p><p style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none;"><i><span style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">2. Click on Manage 3. Click on Services & Applications 4. Select Services 5. Right click on  Interactive Services Detection </span></i></p><p><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">6. Set it to manual or Disable the service</span></i> </p></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><p>/Rolf </p>

thank you, that seems to have fixed it now [Y]