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Just tell Windows not to check for updates, then no notification to break things! 
I turned off automatic update checks on my home computer because they annoy me. Honestly, the idea of checking for updates when a computer starts is terrible. The process ends up being:
turn on computer => update computer => reboot computer => use computer => turn off computer
instead of something sensible like:
turn on computer => use computer => update computer => turn off computer
But even worse are the updates for my Razer peripherals, which happen right at boot, no warning, no cancel, and always require a reboot, and if you don't none of your custom buttons work (I have volume mapped to the back/forward buttons on the mouse, and I use those a lot).
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This happens mostly with Win update, but other notifications can cause it as well
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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You can disable notifications for anything after it shows up there at least once.
Right click the notification icon area => Properties => Customize notification icons => turn off notifications for any offending programs.
Sure it's only curing the symptoms, but it's something.
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Quote: Anyone know how to correct this?
Get a big enough monitor you so you don't need to hide it. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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On a related note..my applications keep forgetting the pinned items 
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As said below, get yerself a bigger monitor...
Similarly, I had a lightbulb flash in my head a while back. I write code, so vertical space is more important to me, and yet I have a widescreen. All my taskbars are on the left now, no problems!
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark Wallace wrote: Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?
In two cases, no, they're laptops, and I don't fancy typing sideways.
In the third case, I have a nice big 27" IPS monitor[^] from work, which has great resolution, but no swivel. I have a pretty deep desk, but I think I'd be having to look up and down a bit too much if I was facing a 2 foot high screen.
(I have had a monitor in the past which was portrait, and it was pretty nifty, but very odd!)
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Call Obama. He thinks he has an answer for everything, and that all problems can be solved via executive order.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Then again maybe somehow one can claim that the task bar uses the entire system resources with out actually doing any work.
ROFLMFAO
That's funny - I don't care *who* you are...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I assume that the executive order starts with zero.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It comes from a zero...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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<Windows '95 tech-support mode>
Have you tried formatting the hard drive and re-installing?
</Windows '95 tech-support mode>
What annoys me most is that if a Windows app pops up a dialog (e.g. an Outlook meeting reminder), only the top border of the taskbar unhides; all the rest is transparent, with the desktop showing through.
What annoys me second-most is that the buttons don't group until the taskbar is "full". I use two rows, because I always have a lot of stuff open, so the taskbar is never 'full"; it just squeezes and squeezes the buttons until they're useless -- right now, I have six XML files open for reference, and they've each got an individual button.
Not much of a pain in the foxhole.
I'm beginning to like the idea of Linux -- if things like that annoy you, you can just fix them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In order to control the "mutant task bar with a mind of its own" which decides arbitrarily when it is visible or not, I use a free utility, "TaskBar Eliminator"[^].
I'm using it on Win 7/64, but supposedly it works on Vista, and XP, also.
It uses alt-t to show, or hide, the TaskBar: yes a slight pain in the butt to remember at first, but then you become used to it, and it's almost automatic now, for me to use it.
It, of course, appears in the TaskBar itself, and has a strange implementation where you don't get the context menu you might expect with a standard TaskBar icon: you context click, and then get a single choice: "Preferences:" you then click on that, and the control dialogue opens, and that gives you the only way you can exit the program (unless you want to use the Task Manager to kill it). And, you have no option to change the key-combination that triggers it.
But, it works ... while running every app I use, etc. !
best, Bill
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." Niels Bohr
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Did you know that Samantha Cameron was Miss Sheffield in 1996?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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She must have been the sole entrant.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Hey, I would!
Anyway, it was 1996 when she married David Cameron, prior to that she was Miss Samantha Sheffield.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: Hey, I would!
Really? Have to say, I wouldn't. I'd be tempted to keep asking her "why the long face?"
ps I'm sure she's a really nice person.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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There's something not quite human about her.
And Call Me Dave is clearly one of the lizard people.
That could be why their first child rejected its human form.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: Miss Sheffield
A brilliant idea.
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Only tories would be proud of vote-rigging. Everyone else would be ashamed of himself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But sir, we think the crowd are too loud, it means we are going to lose sir.
Moaning Ocker Rowers[^] complain that the crowd's chants are putting them off.
This from a country that had Merv Hughes and Allan Border?
Great Jumping Biscuits of Amon Ra! That is pathetic!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Top comment is response...
When the Australian team landed at Heathrow, the 747's engines were shut down but a loud whining could still be heard coming from inside the aircraft.
Rhys
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe"
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You start a thread and post about sledging and about Merv Hughes and about cricket.
I just have to reply to this post.
Dalek Dave wrote: Merv Hughes
"That is the story, anyway. Exactly who said what tends to become frayed with each rendition of all the classic sledges. But one man seems to finds his way into the cast far more frequently than anyone else. There can be no mistaking Merv Hughes as the greatest "sledgend" of all. That monstrous moustache of his always seemed to be flecked with venom. |Hughes certainly had a role in the "mental disintegration" of Graeme Hick. "Mate," he would say, "if you just turn the bat over, you'll find the instructions on the other side." Or: "Does your husband play cricket as well?" Mike Atherton, a rather more robust victim, remembered: "I couldn't make out what he was saying, except that every sledge ended with 'a**ewipe'."
Atherton made a point of getting to know Hughes, off the field, and learnt to laugh him off. And, of course, that is the whole point. Hughes only got under your skin if you made the mistake of taking him too seriously. On one occasion Hughes was being hit all round the ground – in some versions by Viv Richards, in others by Hansie Cronje. Hughes stopped halfway down the pitch, and broke wind lavishly. "Let's see you hit that to the boundary!"
Then there was the time Javed Miandad for some reason got it into his head to call Hughes a "fat bus conductor". A few balls later Hughes had him caught, and galloped past shouting: "Tickets, please!"
Excerpt from http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/the-joy-of-sledging-1727087.html[^] (an interesting read).
There were a number of English cricketers who were very good at sledging.
Andrew Flintoff was quite good at it until Sourav Ganguly took his shirt off.
modified 31-Jul-12 10:33am.
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