[takoi]

OK, for local only, netwok value settings [tab: advanced] below are they in minutes?

in seconds

I meant the settings 'show notifications' in the general tab, this option is disabled but still i get popups from watchdog when it does something such as on start show the adding option, start deleting popup etc,
I would expect if notification is OFF it would show no info whatsoever in xbmc

I can understand the confusion. 'Notifications' are something different and displayed in the bottom-right corner. The one on startup is a progress bar and was added and is always shown because people continuously tried to exit xbmc while watchdog is starting (which will often crash xbmc). It shouldn't normally display for more than a couple of seconds, tops, anyway. The update/clean dialogs are controlled by xbmc, like I said. There's an option for hiding the library update progress in the system settings. As for the clean library popup, it's something that's being worked on (see PR5324)