i can't fw anything. I don't work for them. Your suggestion has been posted lots of times, and each time it was the same answer from james. By design, not going to change. Slysoft ppl like james do regurarly visit the forums, if and when james sees this and maybe responds. 99.99% sure it'll be the same answer again.
Yeah, and they can't seem to get it through their heads that it's a bug that MANY people would like to see fixed (yes, it's bug, it's not by design, that's just stupid).
I have complained about this many times as I have AnyDVD on a machine that it can't be running on all the time, so I disable autostart and only run the software when I need it... And I have to do that every time I install... If _I_ change a setting to something that suits my workflow/workstation, why can't that setting be left the way I set it? I've never seen any other software deliberately undo and user settings like that (unless its the kind of software that just resets everything).
I understand the basic response from SlySoft will be 'We don't care what you think, it's staying this way', but I really would like an explanation of exactly why they think it should be done this way? I don't think AnyDVD should be running 24/7 on my computer, so why can't I have it set that way and STAY set that way?
Think of it this way: If you set it to not auto-start, and then updating does NOT change that setting, how many threads like this would be started with people complaining about that? Compare that to how many times someone starts a thread complaining that their settings aren't remembered...
The attitude of 'we know better than you do' when they have no idea who you (the end user) is is just bad programming/UI design. Like I said, I _can't_ leave AnyDVD running all the time as it alters the content of any disc I put in the player, which makes verifying discs against files on the hard drive impossible. If AnyDVD is running, these verifications always fail, so I need to keep it off most of the time.