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Have you heard of Browser Fingerprinting?
I suggest you look at this Am I unique?[^]
It will give you a breakdown of how they can pin point a single user.
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Got a customers computer that has decided certain dialog boxes don 't need any test in the box itself or on buttons.
I thought I had it down to Outlook Notifications and the Email Account Dialog, but then the customer showed me the MYOB 2015.4.1 Open Company File Dialog and it was the same.
I have removed all Malwae, Applied all Windows Updates, including IE 11, AMD Display Drivers and also Office Updates.
I have it here now to backup and reinstall, but I don't want to.
What is the magic bullet to fix this?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: What is the magic bullet to fix this?
Beer.
Lots and lots of beer.
Then with luck he won't be able to see the damn computer, much less complain about dialog boxes!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Beer.
Lots and lots of beer.
Then with luck he won't be able to see the damn computer, much less complain about dialog boxes!
Faarrrkkk Off, I'm not giving him my beer. I'm currently alternating between Matilday Bay Brewwings Fat Yak and Double Bundy OP and Pepsi Max.
I'm feeling ggod now, but mot tomorrow when the issue still remains.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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He's a customer.
So you give him your beer, then you charge him for it (plus a handling fee, of course).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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On a more serious note, I'd suspect handles are running out.
Are there any apps running that might be hogging resources?
Have you tried to see what happens in Safe Mode?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: On a more serious note, I'd suspect handles are running out.
Are there any apps running that might be hogging resources?
Crashplan every 15 minutes, MYOB, QuickBooks, Office 2016 and probably much more.
OriginalGriff wrote: Have you tried to see what happens in Safe Mode?
Will try some time. 01:04 and quite pissed at the moment.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Acessibility or personalisation. Have they changed the defaults? Reset them just in case.
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DaveAuld wrote: Acessibility or personalisation. Have they changed the defaults? Reset them just in case.
I will give this a go when I can.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It sounds like the text is the same color as the dialog maybe...but only for certain ones? I've seen some wierd things happen where the transparency color is set to a common background. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Hi All,
Had fun yesterday. On Thursday the Win10 box I am writing on updated and the spiders silk BT connection at my parents went down. Spent Friday on the phone to BT got the line up and working, the problem then was the PC had got part way through an update and when the connection was broken it appeared to do something to the WiFi, when I manged to find the widget that controls System Restore I rolled back installation rebooted and held breath. It worked ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and days worth of emails. So to any else noticed Win10 being picky if an update is faulty.
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If an update fails to download properly - and that should be the only reason a connection failure should be able to affect it - then it should fail SHA / MD5 / CCC checks and not be installed.
It's possible that the update didn't fail, but did disable your whole network (one of Win10's did for me last year) and I did a fresh install (rather than a Win7 -> Win10 upgrade) to fix the problem permanently as I could see it coming back when the update re-did itself... 
Anything else would worry me about the state of the MS updater... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was up past 2am fixing it, the sod works now! it appears that an updae to Windows Defender caused the problem...
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: updae to Windows Defender caused the problem
Ah! By design then. Disconnecting you from the source of viruses, trojans, keyloggers, and ransomware will certainly defend your system pretty damn well!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My old boss does not want to see me anymore after I quit, so I have a few weeka of paid free time. And what do I do with so much time? Build a helicopter, of course. It's a Vietnam Huey this time. I have already put together and adjusted the mechanical parts, tried them in a hovering flight behind the house and now I'm working on the fuselage.
I will need to print my own decals after the painting is done, including uncounted texts, labels and wornings which were airbrushed with block stencil letters onto the original. I have a diagram showing the position of those details on the aircraft, but there are many obvious errors. For example they wrote 'VIATION FUEL' instead of 'AVIATION FUEL'.
Now I have one which I don't understand, here is the text:
A. STARTER GENERATOR OIL DRAIN
B. OIL TANK VENT
C. FUEL FILTER DRAIN
D. ENGINE FUEL DRAIN
E. OIL TANK - TRANS OIL &
FILTER SCUPPER DRAIN
F. FUEL CELL VENT
G. OIL COOLER DRAIN
H. ENG. FUEL DICK DRAIN
J. TAIL PIPE DRAIN
It's H. that gives me something to think. Is that a joke? An error? Or does it really make some sense which escapes me?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Nice find! so it could be
H. FUEL DRAIN DRAIN TAP
Life is too shor
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Man-points awarded for using 'clbuttic !
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Do the phrases "Magic Fingers," or, "Happy Landing" appear anywhere on the box ?
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Might one suggest DECK?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It's a pun. A google of "engine fuel dick drain" led me to a post about a "drain c**k." See for yourself[^]
[edit]hahaha - CP word filter. That's a legitimate device. I'm sure you can figure out the other 3 letters. [/edit]
Marc
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Perhaps "wick drain" ... though quite what one of those would be doing on a helo is beyond me
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