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[TOOL] Steam Event Notification Blocker (OUTDATED)

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Nandee

UPDATE:

This tool no longer required to get rid of the notifications, you can turn them off in the steam client's setting by navigating to :
Settings/Friends/Group events and announcements
and uncheck Display a notification.

There is no point using this tool anymore!

Windows only!

What is It?
This is a very simple app for blocking event notifications. It automatically closes event notification windows when they appears. The app runs in the background and starts with windows startup so just install it and you don't have to care about it anymore.

How to install?
Unzip the winrar archive and run install.bat

How to uninstall?
You can uninstall the program anytime running uninstall.bat

How it works?
This app creates a little program that running in the background all the time (it uses as little amount of resources as possible). It checks for steam's event notification windows every second and closes them. The program starts automatically with Windows.

Is it safe?
It's totally safe. The program not using any injection method or bothering steam files. It only using windows API to detect event notification windows and closes them automatically

The program is tested for now its working no crashes.

Changelog:

1.0
- First release
1.0.1
- Removed VC Redist 2015 dependency (executable's size increased)
- Replaced the 'cp' with 'copy' command in the batch installer

Tell me if you have any kind of compatibility problems!

Links:
Download & Source Code
Virustotal
Installation Guide
Pledgie Campaign

BUMP this thread so more people can find this tool :)

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Espoah

I've been looking for something like this. Thanks for the infos and the giveaway!

8 years ago
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jbondguy007

Neat idea for a tool. I don't necessarily need it though, and I'd rather wait a bit and see some "reviews" about it first. :P

8 years ago
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LunarPriestess

Really handy tool if your in alot of groups.

8 years ago
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Push

this. because of gleam giveaways and my laziness, i'm around 350 groups. and Id say around 50 of them post every new freebie within seconds of each other. annoying is an understatement.

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Nandee

i had the same problem :)

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thegodoftitsandwine

You don't have to stay in groups for gleam. It still thinks I'm in all the groups I left months ago

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Push

and my laziness

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ectra

same, I left about 70 few weeks ago and I can still enter most.

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ozo2003

why windows only?

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Nandee

Because the program uses a very operation system specific solution. It should be fully rewritten for any other operations systems.

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Nandee

Source code added!

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Osma

Seems like you've done a great job. Will see for myself once the program is available to download through Github. For now, have a whitelist.

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Nandee

Added github download + source code!

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Simfono

Requires VC++ 2015 Redistributable, probably x86 version
Also we have an error during installation:
Can't find process "senb.exe". unknown command or file "cp"
P.S. Win7 x64

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Nandee

i will remove the redist dependency soon
might be the cp is win10 specific command i will fix it
and yes it was built for 32 bit systems so it needs x86 version

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foe
(Game Developer)

it's not a win10 specific command, it's not included in ANY windows OS [by default].

cp is nix-based. copy is dos-based.

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Shad0WeN

Nice tool. I've had group event notifications minimize a game I was in before, which is super annoying and fucking retarded.

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Lugum

Nice but even better if you could customize to only show notfications of certain groups (10%) and disable others (90%).
Then you deserve a medal.

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Mully

funny how valve "couldn't" do this in 6 years since the first request to remove notifications, and it's always someone else that fix their crap.

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jotarokujo1234556778

i have been looking for something like this and it seems to work so thank you very much for that.

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Nandee

New update!

1.0.1
- Removed VC Redist 2015 dependency (executable's size increased)
- Replaced the 'cp' with 'copy' command in the batch installer
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G7FrAnubis

Does this work with Big Picture event notifications?

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Nandee

It isn't any different kind of event notification window so it should work.

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Yirg

Thank you and bump!

8 years ago
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Nandee

Description updated & Installation guide added

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morbidru

Windows defender detects Senb.exe as Win32/Varpes virus and autodeletes it?

8 years ago
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Nandee

I'm just scanned it:
http://prntscr.com/c7awbi

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Nandee

added Virustotal to the description
It didn't threat senb.exe as a virus either

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hondaime

thats lovley! Bump

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titoncio
(Game Developer)

BUMP

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Dunther

This is the best thing ever

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Nandee

bump

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Dustrials

I can't install it.
ERROR: The process "senb.exe" not found.
Failed to copy senb.exe to the Steam directory

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Nandee

the first error is normal
the second one isn't, try to run install.bat as an administrator

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Dustrials

with administrator rights i have: senb.exe not found!
so it is ok

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Nandee

its probably removed by your anti virus

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Nandee

bump

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Luckz

I assume they will still be able to steal focus and tab you out of things etc?

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Nandee

yes :/

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Luckz

In that light I'd prefer Steam.exe injection :D

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Yirg

This was useful, but I found out (late) that the Steam client allows suppressing notifications: Settings -> Friends -> For group events and announcements -> uncheck Display a notification

Thanks!

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bmh67wa

It is a newer feature that wasn't available when this program was made. This topic is over a year old now.

7 years ago
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Yirg

I know. I commented so that other users who were using this script and were (like me) unaware that it's no longer needed will use the settings instead. I also wanted say thanks one more time :-)

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Nandee

I knew that its already solved but i never spent time looking into it. Thank you for the heads up i updated the description. I will keep the discussion open until your ga ends. :)

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Calibr3

Did not know that. Very helpful information, thank you!

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