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Randor wrote: I have never had anyone do this to me, I can't figure out your motivation. This is a very unpleasant experience.
If one makes mistakes on technical subjects in a technical forum, one should not be surprised if they are pointed out. I have done this, honestly and truthfully, on this particular subject. I too make mistakes and have had them pointed out. However, I've not made any technical errors in this particular thread.
I'm not pursuing you in any special way. I'd have done the same if it had been anyone else saying the particular things that you said here. I had never heard of you before this thread.
Randor wrote: But as an experienced software engineer that contributed to Windows 8,8.1, and 10 at Microsoft in the operating systems group I hope that I can contribute and help others here on codeproject.com and have a positive impact.
I'm sure you do help people and do have a positive impact. But this does not mean that you are especially immune to scrutiny. All of us on technical forums place ourselves open to scrutiny. Some of us could practice some humility, of course. 
I welcome scrutiny. I am confident in the technical accuracy of everything I have said in this thread.
Randor wrote: I try to avoid conflict and I try to share my experience and wisdom with others.
I understand. I don't think this is conflict. I see it just a search for objective truth based upon testing and evidence. I have done the empirical testing and provided the evidence for my claims.
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lol,
You are seriously very good at debating. My statements at the top of the thread to @OriginalGriff were completely accurate. I have reviewed them multiple times.
The Lounge[^]
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If you are wondering why Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google has tens of thousands of engineers and why they almost never post on public forums... what is happening right now is why. It is easy for something like this to happen and get into a long drawn out ugly debate. A talented debater can make it look really ugly and hard for laymen to figure out factual statements.
I am retreating, you win the debate!
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: You are seriously very good at debating.
I'm genuinely flattered, although I'm not entirely sure you meant it to be a compliment.  However, in this case it's mostly just connected with my making a mistake.  See my other message at [^].
Randor wrote: My statements at the top of the thread to @OriginalGriff were completely accurate. I have reviewed them multiple times.
The Lounge[^]
See my message linked above about this one. As per my other message, I readily admit that I deeply misread what you wrote about the Content-Type header and I am really sorry about that. But, as I also pointed out, you did make a mistake too. Your message was not completely accurate.
Randor wrote: The Lounge[^]
I did not in fact reply to this one as far as I can see now but you did say once again that it was an "operating system build problem" which is not the case. The issues that @OriginalGriff mentioned are not due to the OS build at all. You also referenced the COM object again which is irrelevant in as much as it doesn't tell us anything about how Outlook finds the correct target program to run (despite the fact that Outlook uses it to generate the MHT file).
Randor wrote: If you are wondering why Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google has tens of thousands of engineers and why they almost never post on public forums... what is happening right now is why.
But you're not representing your employer here. If you hadn't said "we" I'd never have known you work for Microsoft. In my view, unless specifically announced otherwise, everyone here just represents themselves.
Randor wrote: A talented debater can make it look really ugly and hard for laymen to figure out factual statements.
With the best will in the world, this seems to me to be something of a straw man. That sounds provocational but it's not meant to be. I just mean that not every debate has to be suitable for laymen and this debate is, in my opinion, not one of them. Only people who are interested and have some awareness of the technical issues would be able to follow it, and that's not a weakness imo. It's just the way it is.
As I say, I apologise for my mistake in misreading your comment about Content-Type headers. But, as I have noted, you did make some mistakes too.
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markrlondon wrote: but you did say once again that it was an "operating system build problem" which is not the case.
I said it was a build problem because the registry keys relating to MHT files and protocol are set by the Windows 10 build process. When I make comments like this I am looking at the problem from the perspective of someone with intimate knowledge of the Windows 10 build process.
This has happened before:
Back in March, 2019 Rick York found a bug where GetFileVersionInfoW was causing an issue[^]. He blamed it on the Visual Studio team. What he didn't know was that it was ME personally that moved GetFileVersionInfoW into the Mincore library when I was working on OneCore. He was blaming it on the Visual Studio team and I pointed out that the API was actually part of the operating system build process and the Visual Studio team was just using our API constructed during the build.
I am under perpetual NDA and I can easily get in big trouble discussing internal things like this online. I guess I will just stop responding to technical issues relating to Microsoft.
modified 7-Oct-20 9:29am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Just like Chrome, it opens it as raw text, and displays the HTML.
It's possible that prior to the new Chromium version it did, just like it used to support epub files.
I can confirm that the current, publicly available, Chromium-based Edge fully supports MHT. I use it all the time to create and view MHTs. It also works successfully to view MHTs generated with IE or Firefox/Waterfox/UnMHT.
If yours doesn't show MHTs successfully then I guess you have a misconfiguration in your system. Can you send me one of the MHTs and I'll see if it opens successfully for me in my Edge.
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markrlondon wrote: If yours doesn't show MHTs successfully then I guess you have a misconfiguration in your system. Can you send me one of the MHTs and I'll see if it opens successfully for me in my Edge.
Oops sorry, I see you've already tested with another MHT.
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My more important email accounts (aka work) are handled by the full-blown Outlook client, but I otherwise use Win10's built-in client for my personal email. Things I probably don't need to hang on to for a long time and will probably get nuked sooner or later. Amazon's stuff falls in that category.
Their emails tend to end up in my junk mail folder, where images are blocked. If I really want to read them, I just drag the message onto the inbox, and read it from there, with the images unblocked automatically.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So it ... opens it in IE11 ... 
So a moments thought tells me why: Outlook looks at the email in HTML and packages it in a MHT file and uses the default app to open those via Process.Start (or similar). Unfortunately, neither Chrome nor Edge support MHT files anymore, so it digs up the oldest browser it can find on the computer and uses that ...
Edge certainly does support MHTs and it's very fast for both saving and reading them. It's faster than either IE or Waterfox with the UnMHT addon. (UnMHT no longer works in Firefox).
(I'm not sure whether or not this feature is inherited from Chrome/Chromium or added by Microsoft. Kudos to the Edge dev team for adding it if is their work).
The only reason the MHTs open in IE and not Edge is that you haven't selected Edge to be your default app for MHTs. You can do this through the usual 'Choose default applications by file type' in Settings.
However, it would help if Outlook itself was aware of this issue and gave you an alert to tell you what MHTs viewers are installed on your system. Whilst it can no longer directly change preferences (due to a preference-signing addon that Microsoft added to apps muckong around which people's preferences), it could tell you where to go to change your MHT preference.
modified 3-Oct-20 19:44pm.
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So, staying at home and no family outing lead to my car being idle for too long (used once around 1+ month back). Did not anticipate that around a month without use would add another task to my TODO list.
One of the task to close on today - get mechanic and get it jump started and charge up the battery. 
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Yeah, mine did that as well - alarms and suchlike use more power than you might think!
I got one of these: Röhr Battery Charger 100 Amp 12V / 24V DFC-650P Intelligent Turbo/Trickle with Repair, Maintain and Jump Start - HGV/Lorry/Car: Amazon.co.uk: Car & Motorbike[^] It's vastly overkill for what I needed, but the Jump Start has come in handy twice (on neighbours cars in the same position). It delivers up to 480A starting current in Jump Start mode for up to 5 seconds (then needs 20s to cool down) and if that won't start the car, nothing will! 
I wasn't expecting it to be so big or heavy, but my word it does what is says on the tin and saves a callout / mechanic fee!
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OriginalGriff wrote: he Jump Start has come in handy twice (on neighbours cars in the same position)
Don't have the wire to connect! No other option then to get a mechanic with tools.
OriginalGriff wrote: I wasn't expecting it to be so big or heavy, b
I hope I don't need to buy a new one now!
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I had the same problem, but it worked OK after a few hours on the charger. Until, of course, the day when I was away from home and it died completely. All well again after installing a new one.
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Hoping the same for me - a recharge and all back.
I still am confused if I can/should put on AC or not once my car is charged 30 min or so.
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It is best to ensure everything is switched off while charging. And once charged and you are driving keep all accessories switched off for a few days at least.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And once charged and you are driving keep all accessories switched off for a few days at least.
You're far nicer to your vehicles than I am. I'd be blasting all of the accessories simultaneously and if anything went wrong I'd just blame Toyota. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: It is best to ensure everything is switched off while charging.
Richard MacCutchan wrote: And once charged and you are driving keep all accessories switched off for a few days at least.
That is going to be difficult. Would prefer keeping windows up and AC on if I go out in car for now. Lets see.
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You look at your "volt meter" (if you have one) to see how much your alternator is charging.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Don't think so I have. Will check if any indicator similar.
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Computerised cars (i.e. built this century) often have a "Secret" way to show the battery status on the car display: for mine it's "turn the ignition to position one, and press the trip reset button three times in quick succession"
That stays available until the engine is turned off.
Google your make and model plus "show battery voltage" and you'll likely find it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: press the trip reset button three times in quick succession"
That stays available until the engine is turned off.
I will surely try this tomorrow on my car - though I think Indian cars are behind and not comparable. Further, I don't think my car is computerized. Bought it in 2012 and probably after couple of years later some computerization started kicking in cars.
OriginalGriff wrote: Google your make and model plus "show battery voltage" and you'll likely find it.
Nada. Tried it.
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Oh, I see you are Bangalore - that makes sense.
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Bangalore is known as an Air Conditioned city. No need to use AC in cars. As a resident of Bangalore, I have never switched on AC in my car; don't even know how to turn it on.
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I must admit on my short visits I found the air nice and fresh. But it was rather warm for someone used to British weather.
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Ah! So you have been to Bangalore earlier. Seems few number of times. When was your last visit?
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15 years ago when our company was outsourcing some work to MindTree. I was working at their HQ and living in a hotel the other side of town. Technically it was largely a waste of time and money to send me over there, but I met some nice people, and ate some wonderful real Indian food.
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