Please, for the love of god, stop Wand from popping up randomly over what Im doing

[elder orchid]

I think my biggest issue that keeps me from installing wand permanently on my pc is just how many times it asks you for firewall permissions, or pops up randomly because it restarted after an update you never asked it to do, or it boots in the background even when I have it set not to in Task Mgr. Its just all up in your face all the time. I cannot get it to stop randomly popping up over the thing Im currently doing. I just lost 2 hours of progress in a game because Wand decided to overlap my (fullscreen game) and I didn't even know it was RUNNING. I wasn't even USING it for that game it just decided to pop right on in.

Please, please, please, please reduce the amount of unwanted pop-ups. Its infuriating. This has been a "bug" or "feature" for YEARS now. It is not helpful, it is incredibly aggravating.

[radiant glade]

Sorry you had such a frustrating experience. We appreciate you sharing this

The repeated firewall prompts usually happen if Wand isn’t fully whitelisted in your firewall, so once it’s allowed through, those interruptions should stop. The auto-update is needed to keep everything running smoothly, but it definitely shouldn’t be getting in your way like that.

If you’re not using Wand and want to make sure it stays totally out of the way, you can right-click the Wand icon in the system tray and hit Exit so it fully closes.

I’ve passed your feedback along to the team too. We hear you, and we don’t want Wand interrupting your gameplay either. Thanks for letting us know!

[elder orchid]

That's what I thought, but I'd hit accept and wouldn't you know it the next day it'd ask me again. You know? I tried my best to resolve the issue myself before comin here. Its definitely a bug thru Wand, I've double and triple checked its allowed thru the firewall and it is.