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Like the "Thought of the Day" post?
To wit, slightly different each day, hinting at some great and important task we must undertake. Probably, doing some work instead of posting puns on CP.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Leslie, this has been reported here in the Lounge. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I spend 99.9% of my time with 2 VS2015 copies running and SSMS. Recently I have seen a dos window pop up momentarily and disappear, I suspect this could be caused by one of the myriad corporate security products installed and while it is not critical it is annoying as I lose focus on the application I am working on.
Any suggestions as to how to identify the culprit.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If there are certain things that happen just before then you can just launch Sysinternals Process Monitor just before.
After you capture a trace then you can view the process tree and look for the popup.
You should be able to tell from that what launched it.
If it is intermintent then it may be harder to catch with a small trace.
You can always filter out the execess before you save the trace file.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Here is a post I did on troubleshooting a Hex editor Using Process Monitor.
PC's Xcetra Support.[^]
Perhaps it can give you some ideas.
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Thanks, that at least gives me something to start with.
The pop up seems to be completely random but I'm now tracking the timing, 3 so far today.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You could also run Process Explorer minimized to the the tray and extend the Highlight time so it will show the highlighted process that opened longer when it pops up then closes.
Then just open up process explorer and look for something highlighted as soon as it pops up.
You will still only have the time that you upped the timer to.
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We have an extension that run TFS commands upon compilation, and those commands open DOS-like popup for TFS console...Maybe something alike...
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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Our TFS installation and usage is the most minimalist possible so I don't think it is going to be TFS.
I think I'll just bitch at the IT support peeps (IBM) and see what they come up with rather than waste my time chasing a phantom. I have enough bugs to annihilate in my own apps, besides they have loaded so much security crap on these system it may be impossible to track down.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: they have loaded so much security crap on these system it may be impossible to track down.
Their "security crap" may be spawning .vbs or .js scripts as part of some system assessment, and may be using cscript.exe (which will pop up a console window) rather than wscript.exe, which can execute silently.
Something like that anyway. Pure speculation from my part.
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No politics in the Lounge, please... 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Good luck with that. The more the establishment tries to stop him and the media yammers on about it, the more votes he'll get.
Marc
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So I came back from the pub tonight and the missus said
"you're drunk again"
I slurred "no I'm not"
She said
"It's either me or The Pub, which is it?"
I thought for awhile and replied
"It's you, I can tell by your voice."
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Me and the signigicant other are at 36001 ft. Our first A380. Dubai ahead, Adam to port and Tiwi to starboard. Should be in our hotel in Madrid by lunch.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Quote: are at 36001 ft
Are you sure it's not 36002 ft? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Of course not, he's sitting down as the seatbelt sign is on. 
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Did you think about climate protection? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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0) I have been a bit away from technology since every device still working @home
1) Laptop is not for me. Is for a family member of my wife. We will get old desktop (actually not so old) in exchange
2) Ok... I buy something middle class, the elder woman is not a geek and her usage is low profile.
3) Headache 1 (low): All my boot cds won't boot, F12 for boot menu... not appearing in the list  Let's have a look to the BIOS... supervisor password set  Start trying the standards... I find it out at 5th try (guess which). BIOS with very very few information and settings Something I don't know (secure boot) hmmm ok... lets try legacy... boot CDs work. Fine
4) Headache 2 (middle): Mini WinXP of boot CD won't load due to too high amount of RAM (kinda expected it)... Select Linux, go to partition tools, select parangon... HI-Memory not available It doesn't matter which too I try to boot, always the same message even the portable norton ghost that is less than 1 mb 
5) Lets try with Windows directly while I search for new versions of boot cd... works. Nice, I start being happier.
6) Windows 7 installed. I go to device manager, put the delivered Driver DVD and start the list of the unknown devices... some of them not found
8) I go to the manufacturers site... enter the SSID, have a look to the list options... only Win8.1 and Win10 (Kinda expected it but still annoying like hell)
9) Even SSID entered (which I expected to be like a "unique" hardware configuration for that model), some of the drivers are like 10 times depending on (NFA335 HAI/Liteon, NFA435 HAI/Liteon etc...)
And now the question...
If the BIOS gives me no usefull information about the devices and the device manager in windows has only generics inside... how can I find out which of the 10 damm drivers offered in the list is the one this laptop needs? I would have expected to find out like a signature for the hardware on the device manager or anywhere else in control panel that can help. I wanted to search in the net for drivers of win7, I suppose I can still find some of them. Any advice? My last idea (I don't really want to do this) is to download the 50+ items on the list and start trying everyone just to see, which one complains and which ones not, and then format and start over again.
Definitivelly, being the only one in the family that knows something about computers is not the best role.
Rant P.S. Damm Win10... so happy I was with support for win7
Thanks for your patience and your help in advance
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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modified 8-Mar-16 14:40pm.
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Well, you know what we of the Win 10 fan club are going to tell you to do and you won't do it, so I won't. 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Right now... I would prefer to try it with Win7. The aunt of my wife is even more reluctant to new technologies (in this case Win10) than me. She is already used to Win7 and doesn't want to start over again (she is in the last 60es)
If it was for me... I would even consider giving a try to win 10
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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if she's planning on making it to her late 80s or even her late 70s there's probably not going to be a choice before long. Might as well bite the bullet while she's still young!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I hope MS will regain some user friendship. Hope is last to die
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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