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Just add it to the list 
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That is an interesting story; thanks for sharing.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Try turning off the firewall?
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Are you using Trusted Connection or sa ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Have you tried restarting it?
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Are you running under a full admin profile? Most MSFT is only tested under this profile. 
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Hi All,
I just knocked my Keyboard (an old Dell) on the floor...the 'stuff' that came out! Stuff I don't eating! also some worrying pieces of 3D printing supports? If I ever cut myself on near it I will get a shot for tetanus... 
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glennPattonWork wrote: Stuff I don't eating! also some worrying pieces of 3D printing supports?
That's because at night homeless people let themselves in and use your equipment.
It's better than selling "timeout", I guess...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
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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You read the articles on how phones are dirty because we tend to thouch them a lot?
A keyboard is worse.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Have heard somewhere that the dirt on TV Remotes in hotels is worst of all. All kinds of bacteria, etc. on them.
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I seem to remember an episode of Mythbusters, The Kitchen sponge was worse of all!
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glennPattonWork wrote: worse of all!
Bacon
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Amarnath S wrote: Have heard somewhere that the dirt on TV Remotes in hotels is worst of all.
Never thought of it in that way before, and I certainly didn't need to get that image stuck in my head.
I'm never again going to rent a room in a hotel that offers adult channels...in the off chance that someone might've been practicing...lets call it "one-handed channel-surfing".
(I know this isn't helping...but I don't see why I should be the only one getting that image stuck in his head)
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Remotes in hotel rooms are contaminated because the maid cleans them with the same rag she uses on the toilet.
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Yes, but she uses that rag on the coffee pot before she uses it on the remote, so it's lost a lot of bacteria between uses.
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Yes, but she uses that rag on the coffee pot before she uses it on the remote, so it's lost a lot of bacteria between uses.
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I have heard code quality is directly proportional to keyboard cleanliness. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I only code to alleviate issues these days...
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glennPattonWork wrote: alleviate
You spelt elevate wrong.
In my mind I am on a roll!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Stick it through the dishwasher
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Probably meant as a joke, but I do that!
Not the entire keyboard, though. Only the keys. I flip then all off and put them in one of these net bags made for holding pairs of socks together in your washing machine. While the dishwasher is cleaning them, I have easy access to the other surfaces of the keyboard, using a worn out toothbrush to clean the corners in the wells for keys.
The keys come out of the dishwasher perfectly clean and shining. Then they must be spread out in front of a fan for at least half a day to dry up the water that has come inside them. After that I must dig up an old keybard to get the keys back in place: I never look at the keys while typing, but if you ask me where, say, the 'l' key is located on the keyboard, I don't have clue. I just press the 'l' key, wherever it is located  (This is similar to asking me to provide a list of which muscles I engage, in which order, to press that 'l' key: I can't. I just press the key.)
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Makes me glad I never learned to touch-type.
Also I think you have taken germaphobia to a new level.
Suggestion: try not eating crackers spread with peanut butter while working.
What do you do about your mouse? (the one you use, not the ones that crap on your keyboard at night?)
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger....
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I guess I am less germaphobic than anyone I know. Amd I don't like peanut butter
Nevertheless, my fingers are not immune to loosing skin cells, to sweating, or whatever. I am often surprised by how much dust, sometimes rather fatty, is collected at the key sides that I do not touch while typing, and on the surfaces between the groups of keys. It must come from the air. Acutally, the keytops that my fingertip touches is more or less shiny, it is the sides that collect so much dirt that you can scrape it off.
That is the same both on my home PC and my office PC - and at the office, eating crackers with peanut butter while working is most certainly out of the question. Every half year or so, I take the office keyboard with me home to clean it the same way.
The same kind of deposits collects on the mouse, but its surfaces are easily accessible to be wiped with a cloth and some detergent.
And for the ambiguiety of the term "mouse"... In Norwegian, it is also a slang term for female private parts. You can imagine what we call the scroll wheel.
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I would have replied sooner but I have been fighting my web hosting server and email server the last week or so, and just received this. I needed the laugh.
Great reply!
I only clean my keyboard when the keys start sticking. the standard procedure is to throw it away and get another. 
BTW Your reply begs the comment "I hope your wife/significant other/girlfriend gets the cheese on a regular basis.....
My wife always told me I was a big slob...
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