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On their day off, do hackers go phishing?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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LOLZ what a cracker!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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No, as they don't want to be caught in a police net.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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They don't get off the hook that easily. Mining a bit coin keep them busy, too.
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Nice one. 
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Evans Data (surveys) now sometimes has codeproject as a choice - seen in latest dev survey
finally when relevant can click a box/radio-button other than "Other"
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Phew, there were already thoughts on renaming CodeProject to "Other" 
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...luckily, my wounds were only super fish oil! 
What way it the door?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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What was the scale of the incident and was it, as off-fin happens, tide to any other events?
(I'll sea you to the door)
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Wow, you two are like pun geniuses. Seriously impressed with these lines of puns.
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acetaminophen hit you in your head.
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I see you have decided to supplement OGs daily musings.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Do you have a haddock now?
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Just recently some new weirdness with Windows has started happening. If I right click to bring up a context menu, often the selected item box remains on top of all other windows on the screen after it has been selected, and the operation completes. If I swipe to a different virtual desktop the box goes there as well. The only way to get rid of it is to shut down (sleep or hibernate).
Anyone else seen it?
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Very rarely, but I've had it for years on different machines and even different versions of Windows...
What usually helps for me is to go back to the program the context menu belongs to and opening the context menu again.
I think I've had two or three instances where even that didn't help and restarting the computer was the only option.
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I've been getting that on and off for years
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On & off for a long time (pre-Win10).
As someone already said, the best way to get rid of this is to go back to the application that opened the menu, and reopen the menu. Closing the menu usually makes the original disappear.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Tried that a number of times but it never seems to work.
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This is a possible solution. I've seen similar things and they seem to be related to video card and some of the "Aero" settings.
Edit -I used to have tooltips that would hang out even after I left the window giving the tooltip.
Here's what you can try.
Go to System...Properties...Advanced tab...
See this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fewOz.png[^]
(You can right click "This PC" from Explorer and click "Properties" to get to that.)
Next you want to choose the first button (Performance) Settings...
When you click that button you will see:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/1c1Ya.png[^]
These are the things that are affecting this.
You can take a snapshot of your settings and basically turn them all off and then turn them back on slowly to test.
There is a good chance one or more of these will solve your problem. Good luck.
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Thanks for the tip I'll give it a try. The trouble is that because it is random it will not be easy to figure out when and if it is fixed. But, hey ho, as the great Charles Petzold wrote, "This is Windows, no one said it would be easy".
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I just started that and now I have the "Properties" item stuck on the screen. 
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It's painful stuff when Windows fails in these ways.
Hey, also I noticed that on that 2nd window (where the performance options checkboxes are)...if you choose the "Adjust for best performance" radio button then it turns all of those options off.
That is probably the way to go just to see if it fixes it first. However, I don't know how ugly windows will become at that point.
Good luck.
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raddevus wrote: I don't know how ugly windows will become at that point
He's on w10; already ugly.
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Do you have Automatic Updates turned off? Because my various Windows 10 machines have all sorts of weirdness when there is a Windows Update pending, especially one that wants to restart the machine, and I ignore them for too long. I've seen the issues you are talking about only once on one machine, but on all of them I will experience keyboard and/or mouse weirdness. I used to get frustrated and curse at my machine(s), but now the first thing I do is check Windows update. Restarting and letting it update immediately cures the wonkiness.
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No. Updates are automatic and none pending as far as I am aware.
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+1 for the video card. If this has only started happening after replacing a video driver, there's some good odds it's responsible for this. I'd try rolling back to the previous version.
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