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My main laptop is on Win7, but since I have to support some older applications, I run Windows XP Virtual Machine - the one that comes for free with Win 7 Pro. I've been using this VM for at least 6 years. It has always behaved. If I launched the VM, it would come up in full screen mode and login automatically to the desktop. Now however... 
- does not come up full screen;
- always prompts for a user name and password;
- if I take it out of full screen mode - I get the logon window;
- go back to full screen mode- login again;
Anyone out there encountered this? I know I could import it into a VMWare VM, but that's more hassle than I need at the moment.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Did the vm get infected with Malware , or a program update ?
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ledtech3 wrote: Did the vm get infected with Malware , or a program Windows update
FIFY
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Did the vm get infected with Malware , or like a program Windows update
FYFFY
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lol, an update is a valid suggestion, just no idea which one.
I found other people griping from years back (posts older than 5+ years), so I don't think I was nailed by an update. Guess I'll live with it for now then when I get some time move it over to VMware.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Finally cyphered this out. Somehow, the normal login "xpmuser" got remembered as "xpm-user". The second one does not exist. The solution was to go the VM settings and clear the remembered credentials and boot it.
At this point, you'll be prompted again for an account - enter the correct one plus password and have the "remember" box checked. Apparently, the XP vm checks credentials all the time, and once they got mismatched, confusion ensued.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The interesting part may to figure out how that got changed.
Like possibly a hidden user was added /deleted.
I've probably spent too much time with reversing, malware I suspect everything anymore.
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I agree. I only use this VM behind multiple firewalls and the like, and only for development (never email, web, etc). So, I don't think it is malware. I suspect that what happened is that I made a typo and one thing led to another. It remembered a bad user name, and we went downhill from there.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Your normally scheduled program has been interrupted for this...
Me: Hey, you can build iOS apps in Visual Studio!?! Xamarin? Yippee-ki-yeah!!
Xamarin for Windows allows iOS applications to be written and tested within Visual Studio, with a networked Mac providing the build and deployment service.
Me: Meh. Honestly, if i had a Mac I'd probably just learn Native iOS dev.
We return you to your normally scheduled Lounge... Nothing to see here. 
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Well.. it's not their fault really, just Apple make it mandatory to build that way...
But it does work.. sharing 1 mac for multiple developers here!! 
However, this is how it feels[^] to build for iOS!
modified 7-Aug-16 22:44pm.
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Get yourself an modern iMac or Mac Pro. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: Get yourself an modern iMac or Mac Pro
Okay, how do I send you my SWFT code and bank account number so you can send the funds ?
thanks, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Quote: Well.. it's not their fault really, just Apple make it mandatory to build that way...
Which is reason #223,102 why I don't use Apple products.
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I should've known Apple was to blame. 
Good that multiple devs can share one Mac though.
XKCD explains it perfecttly 
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The advantage on Xamarin is that you can target multiple platform. But there is always some disadvantage...
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: But there is always some disadvantage...
I guess that's what keeps us (devs) in business. 
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Do not blame Xamarin - it is all about Apple... With Apple you have to pay to develop applications for iOS...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: not blame Xamarin - it is all about Apple.
That's a really good point. Apple!!
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(More Chrome, so skip if you are bored)
I'm using the keyboard very intensively while I'm working. First of all - I'm old and used to it. It also quicker than switching hands between keyboard and mouse and back again...
Now Chrome decided to switch from [Backspace] to [ALT]+[Left Arrow] and I already broke the [Backspace] on my keyboard...
Until now it was "The big brother is watching you", now it is "The big brother is deciding for you"...
Had I told something about the evil deeds today already?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Backspace still works for me ...
Alt + left arrow also works so I might not have the latest greatest where they removed backspace?
Version: 51.0.2704.103 m
But does seem to be doing an update now so ...
I'll update if that update makes a difference
Edit: yep it's gone
Version 52.0.2743.116 m now and no more backspace, some stupid popup thingy comes to tell me to use alt + left arrow
Pfff
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: ome stupid popup thingy comes to tell me to use alt + left arrow
Interesting. I didn't see any popup.
/ravi
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There's a strategy called voting with your feet: you get up and go to where things are more to your liking. There are other browsers available at the very reasonable price of free.
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And I'm writing this on FF
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Why not Firefox? I do not touch Chrome.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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