The news you want; the weather alerts you need. Get them as they happen from 7online.com with our Desktop Alert tool.
Pick keywords for stories of interest to you. Let us know if you want only urgent alerts, or you can choose to get all of the updates from Eyewitness News and the Accu-Weather team.
Our desktop alert is a tiny 200 Kbytes in size and it runs in the background on your computer. You can tell it whether to alert you with a popup window, a smaller "slider" window or a ticker. It contains absolutely no spyware!
Note to Windows NT, 2000 and XP users: You must have "Administrator" privileges for your computer to install this software correctly. If you do not have "Administrator" privileges or if you are not sure, please contact your systems administrator.
Before you start, be sure your computer meets the minimum requirements to run this application. You need:
* The application supports dial-up or better connections to the Internet.
Important Note: Many anti-virus programs and even some browsers contain built-in suppression of popups. Ads, and/or images. The default settings of such software may interfere with the normal operation of this program. Please refer to the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for more information regarding configuration of your anti-virus software to allow normal operation of this program.
You can download your own 7online.com Desktop Alert in no time, and installing it is easy! Here's how:
Save the Desktop Installer to Your Machine
Click here and Download the 7online.com Desktop Alert installer..
Double Click the Installer
Once you've finished downloading, go to your desktop and double click on the file named 7onlinealerts.exe and follow the prompts to complete the installation.
That's it! You can always click here to read more about getting the most out of 7online.com Desktop Alert.
Still have questions? Email 7online@accuweather.com by filling out this form!.
This product is not yet available to Macintosh users
*Any modern computer running WindowsNT® (or later); Internet Explorer® version v5.5 (or later), Netscape® v6.1 (or later), or Opera v7 web browsers.