tea timer's application core may be limmited now that ms updated explorer or critical updates to ensure that teatimers pop-up windows were "obscured" then put in a policy that said if you want teatimer to work right you have to pay a royalty for the appropriate license agreement to use the software that we wrote to allow your application to work with our software, maybe teatimers authors decided that they don't want to pay any royalty's or something like that, see my above post for disclaimers :P