As for you punching the nag screen, you should not have to deal with that nag screen in the first place, isn't telling them once good enough for them?  You paid for your software and you should be left in peace to enjoy it, but instead, what they're forcing on you (even without the upgrade) - is automated harassment through a persistent nag screen that will not take no for an answer.

Would someone like to inform pomelkopf that there is a process for disabling updates?  And as it's written by the people that wrote windows, it even works.  Pomelkopf, you need to change your news commentators to some that aren't in panic mode constantly, or start to realize that you can trust nothing you get from the net, or the mags.  Panic mode should be reserved for that second after your car drives off a cliff at full speed, otherwise,it's quite unbecoming anything.

Doric.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.