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Don't be concerned, this is not a programming question, but I have been struggling for two days now, trying to dynamically change the color of a DataGrid row by using data triggers and/or converters, based on settings of check boxes in one column. In the process I must have been to 40 or more websites.
I was just about ready to pack it in, when the last site I visited popped up a nasty, large window, stating that I must immediately phone "Microsoft" at a number given. It stated my computer was infected with a vicious virus, but no fear, "Microsoft" will give me instructions to clear the infection. (No doubt the "advice" would not be free!) I tried in vain to close the window. I also could not go back to an earlier restore point for unknown reasons. The virus had apparently corrupted the restore files. The computer would not shut down normally and there was furious disk activity. So I shut it down by brute force: Pulling the power cord.
It so happens that I made a systems drive image a few days ago, after the latest Windows 10 update. So I connected the external drive where I store our family computer images and booted from a Macrium system restore boot disc. Total time to fully recover: About 5 minutes searching for the right boot disc and about 10 minutes to re-image the systems drive. I never even had to call "Microsoft".
Images have saved my family's bacon a few times. If you are not familiar with creation and recovery of images, I really recommend it as a worthwhile procedure to learn. There are several good utilities in this respect. Most are free. I use Macrium's Reflect (the free version). It is fully compatible with Windows 10 and SSDs, including UEFI systems. However, I don't have much experience of other brands. All I know, is that the Windows 7 utility for creation of images cannot be trusted. It has a nasty habit of refusing to re-image the systems drive for one reason or another, usually when you need it badly. I don't trust it. It is still part of Windows 10.
I was concerned that it may have been the dreaded Ransom virus, but my data drive was apparently untouched. I may have yanked the power cord too fast.  I nevertheless took the precaution to change my password with my bank - just in case! The friggin low life that stink up the Internet didn't get me this time.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 21-Feb-16 13:02pm.
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Right on brother.
Way to fight the power, No cloud can match your own usb backup and your own personnel brains to image it.
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Sorry to hear of your ordeal !
I've never had a problem with Win 7/8/8.1 built-in drive image facility.
Have yet to get mal-wared in the browser; perhaps the combination of EmsiSoft AV and Firewall, EFF Privacy Badger and UBlock Chrome Extensions, is the reason. Or, maybe I have been lucky; just haven't gone to wrong site yet.
My possible adoption date for Win 10 has now been pushed forward to September; which is when I think it might be "really" out of beta.
cheers, Bill
«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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Quote: Sorry to hear of your ordeal !
It did serve one useful purpose: To re-inforce my obsession to take images on a regular basis.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Quote: I've never had a problem with Win 7/8/8.1 built-in drive image facility.
If you ever have a hard drive failure and you try to transfer an earlier image from that drive to a new drive, using the Windows 7 utility, the boogie man may get you!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Definately!
Images are a damn good idea - I use AOMEI Backupper which is also free, and also allows you to mount an image as a virtual (read only) disk so you can recover individual files as well, which is handy.
It's a good idea to use two drives - Images on one, then "regular" backups on another and to have neither of them permanently connected to the PC. (Remember that the ransomware elephants aren't stupid, they will corrupt every disk they can find - and backups are a good target.)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: It's a good idea to use two drives - Images on one, then "regular" backups on another and to have neither of them permanently connected to the PC.
You must be spying on me! That's exactly what I do.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Do you recall what the site was that did this? Presuming it was a coding site of some sort, there may be plenty of others here who might also stumble onto it...
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Quote: Do you recall what the site was that did this?
No, unfortunately when it happened I was so focused on getting the machine shut off, that I did not make a note of the site. And of course, after re-imaging the drive the day's browsing history was gone. All I remember is that I was googling the terms 'data trigger' and 'converter' when it happened.
My machine is supposed to automatically report such attacks to Microsoft. I hope this happened because that site should then be included in the next set of definitions for Defender.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Just saw the sad news of the passing of Umberto Eco.[^]
Well known for The Name of the Rose (which was made into a movie). Foucault's Pendulum would be my favourite along with The Island of the Day Before.
All originally written in his native Italian, but wonderfully translated into English.
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I really enjoyed the movie of "The Name of the Rose". I think it was Sean Connery at his best. Sad news about Umberto indeed.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 20-Feb-16 21:24pm.
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Oh my, one of my "literary gods" is gone.
For me, "Name of the Rose" and "Baudolino" are cynosures (beacons) of love, light, and laughter, and the joy of language and playful rapture in surreal esoterica, in post-modern existential fiction's so often haunted, lonely, cities, and desolate steppes.
«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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Someone just asked for a program to make iso files on windows.
But it was gone when I tried to reply.
Anyway mkisofs is a no nonsense, no gui, no cost, no installation tool to create ISO files.
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Yeah, twas me. I took it down cos I found one but thanks for the recommendation.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I had an opportunity to go to Kiel recently for some training, and one weekend, we did go to the miniature museum in Hamburg. It is a very neat place showing the history of Germany throughout the ages. The trains are neat, but the Airport room is awesome
The neat thing is all of the visual 'easter eggs' seen throughout the museum.
Ken
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I love the Area 51 in the America section.
Or the cows with the diving equipment in the Scandinavia section.
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Very cool. BTW, I spotted a UFO hovering above the tracks. Probably waiting to abduct some of the miniature people. 
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If you ever go there in person there's a button to press and the UFO starts to move...
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I had a train set as a child and have not really been much of a miniature train person since, however this is amazing thanks 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks for the links!
Nature is incredible, love to be out in it! I'm an avid hiker, camper, backpacker and boater and lucky enough live in an area where I can do all of it!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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... Unless I had a requirement to support old mickeysoft browsers.
I had been banging my head over a simple design solution for last few hours to just get the navbar right.
I can't use polyfills because that may not be available due to "security"
And browser cannot be updated again due to an obnoxious cocktail of "security" and "compatibility"
Because an internal thing is running on something that breaks on new mickeysoft browsers.
(Hope the "one" is not seeing me  )
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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ΑlphaΔeltaΘheta wrote: Because an internal thing is running on something that breaks on new mickeysoft browsers.
Compatibility Mode?
Really, I don't understand why it's so difficult to fix the 'internal thing' to work with the modern browsers as it's usually just outdated javascript or css.
This morning (at my non-developer Saturday job) I have been fighting with IE11 on Win10 Home. (yes, they are using Home edition for the business) Start IE, it crashes. Disable all add-ons and restart it, it crashes. So why not just use another browser? Because the commercial web application we use to do business only works with IE<10! I finally got it to work by using the 'run as admin' option which raises another question. Why does that work, when I'm already an Administrator on the box?  Actually, I don't care, as long as it works for my shift. My point is that it is bad business to promote an IE only product!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Why does that work, when I'm already an Administrator on the box?
UAC - you're an Administrator, but you're not an Administrator.
Did you try turning Protected Mode off?
Internet Explorer Protected Mode - Turn On or Off - Windows 7 Help Forums[^] (It says Windows 7, but the steps haven't changed for W10.)
It could be a problem with the permissions on the file system or the registry. They aren't documented anywhere, and they're so complicated to fix that MS usually just tell you to create a new user profile, or refresh/reset your PC. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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