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Since I'm short of sleep to the tune of several months of far too little without a break, I'm heading for bed fairly soon. But if memory serves, in an hour or two it will be the umpteenth anniversary of the 29th birthday of our most honored founder, Chris Maunder. I plan to be sound asleep when the clock strikes midnight in the country where he has successfully gained asylum from the juvenile and barnyard animal protection division of Australian law enforcement, but I don't wish to be late for the party. So an early "Happy Birthday!" I'll be wishing you, Chris, in lieu of my usual belated greeting. 
When does the Canadian equivalent of Medicare kick in there? It should be any year now, I would think, if accomplishment is in any way an indicator of age. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: if accomplishment is in any way an indicator of age
Then you must just be a youngster. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
(As am I.)
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Indeed! In fact, I was just on my way to Walmart to buy another case of diapers. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Thanks mate. You flatter and wrong me in the same sentence. I'm innocent! You know how wallaby's like to make up stories - especially when they've been on the turps.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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If the wallabies have GOTTEN the same lawyer as Griff's sheep, you'd better watch out!
speramus in juniperus
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It's a bugger when livestock gets legal aid... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's a bugger when livestock
That's livestock for you. They're always itching for a good rogering. And no, I don't write from experience.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I just got up! The party still on?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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If there is any turps left it is only because Michael Martin didn't finish it off.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Just got back to Office, after seeing my eye doctor (or whatever they are called in 'proper english') -
Happy Birthday, Mighty Maunder
People becoming wiser in order to notice the stupid things they did back in the young days. This doesn't mean that they really stop doing those things. Wise people still do stupid things, only on purpose.
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Chris Maunder wrote: wallaby's like to make up stories
That's not what the baby harp seals tell me...
Happy Birthday, anyway! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Happy Birthday, Chris !
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Sending your data to the NSA...
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Surely there's no need to do that? They've already got it! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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There might be... but it would access the disk when you haven't done a darned thing for ten minutes.
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Without knowing anything else about your system than what you mention here, it could be Windows Update kicking in. If you have Automatic Update set to "Automatic" or "Download updates, but let me choose when to install them", there is no setting to control at what time the download occurs.
You just might be able to use BITSAdmin[^] with the "/Monitor /allusers" or "/List /allusers" command line switch to see if a BITS download is in progress.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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There are many utilities under Sysinternals: Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc...
Once upon a time, Sysinternals used to be a 3rd party; Now it is part of Microsoft offering and all of them are free.
Great Utilities with Simple UI and if u can get past the initial learning curve, it will reveal your needle. If not, all they'll end up do is shift the Haystack you are looking.
Another brute-forcish way to find out this is to shut down MS Services 1 by 1. It is claimed as "risky" by MS folks but if you keep proper track of what you are doing, it is not that risky.
What is most amazing is that the service named "Remote Procedure Call" affects even simple things as Windows explorer and error messages that OS throws out are amusing to look at (i.e. if you are not hyper paranoid types). Whether it is something to with .NET Remoting or external data feeder can be detected by PortMon.
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ExcellentOrg wrote: Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc...
Pokemon???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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It does what it should do INDEXING!!
is this a signature ?
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Indexing and Defrag are the two things that come to my mind.
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