u/Existent_Exister

I have a Win10 laptop with the WhatsApp application. I disabled auto-start for WhatsApp in Task Manager, but now when I start Windows a little window pops up at the bottom that says "You may have new messages".

How can I get rid of that, and hopefully stop any and all WhatsApp services until I actually open WhatsApp? I looked in Task Manager, and couldn't find any processes or services with "WhatsApp" in the name. I think it's rude of them to do that without a way to turn it off, but maybe there is a way to do so in the menu and I just didn't see it.

I'm going out of town for a while, and if my husband uses the laptop while I'm gone, he won't know what to do with that pop-up and won't know what to do with WhatsApp if he accidentally opens it by clicking on it. I know. Third world.. he's very new to Windows, and the Windows installation is in English while he speaks Spanish. (And I'll be bringing back his first Smartphone!) I know I can just uninstall it before I leave, but I shouldn't need to.

I installed Whatsapp in Peru, and will visit the US for the first time since the install, where I'll have a temporary SIM card. I have a dual SIM phone, but the Peruvian SIM card won't have service in the US.

Will I automatically have access to my Whatsapp account and history in the US with a different SIM in effect, or using WiFi along with that SIM? Will I always need to use WiFi to use it? Is it going to try to send me a message to my Peruvian number that I won't be able to access?

I also use Whatsapp on my laptop in a browser (Win7).

I have 3 little bullion coins I bought in 2010 or 2011. I have 2 .10 troy ounce Kruggerands, 1981 and 1982, and one 1985 .25 troy ounce Engelhard Prospector. All 3 look great to me, but I bought them without cases/certification. I can provide photos if needed, but I doubt they're needed. I keep them in a little cloth change purse where they have nothing hard to bang up against except each other, but I probably had them loose in a change purse with other coins when I brought them into Peru, just so as to not draw attention to them. I brought in some bullion silver bars and coins at the time as well. Since then, I've gotten more silver, but those 3 little gold coins are all the gold bullion I have.

We might be selling the gold later this year, because we are getting close to finding land to buy and we may only be a few thousand dollars away from affording something when the time comes. I'd love to hold onto them for the investment, but the land will be more important.

I realize that no one here can tell me values in Peru, and of course the price always rises and falls, but speaking of in the US, for example, would that Engelhard be worth more than just the gold value? What about the Kruggerands?

Also, would it be worth it for me to buy some little plastic cases for them on Amazon? I'm taking a trip to the US soon, so I could bring some back. I thought that if they are in cases, it could help us to be taken more seriously when we do take them to coin dealers. I promise, they aren't ever going to be in a spot where they can bang against anything harder than cloth or plastic!