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Questions tagged [events]

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Removing annoying click-handling logic from websites

There are a lot of websites out there that block your ability to right click or select text. I believe it's done as a sort of half-assed security measure to prevent people from copying text or images. Of course, it's always possible to circumvent…
Ram Rachum
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How to monitor BTRFS filesystem raid for errors?

I saw some documentation on a daemon that can execute a program/script for various BTRFS events, but I cannot find it anymore. How can I have a script/program be executed on a drive failure for a BTRFS raid1 array? I would like to run a script on…
Ioan
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Is there an exhaustive list of what Windows logs or can log?

I know that there is the event log, but that's not where it stops. There are logs for MSI executables, device logs, setup and installation, performance logs, and so on. It's probably quite a long list; however, where can I find such an exhaustive…
Tamara Wijsman
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Automatically reconnect interactive SSH session

What's the best way to automatically reconnect an interactive SSH session to re-establish the shells on terminals? I looked at autossh but that seems to be dedicated to port forwards (which I do not need). Is there any shell-fu or utility that…
wishi
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Accept and Decline button missing in thunderbird when receiving an invitation

I'm using Thunderbird 12.0.1 with the following add-ons for the calendar: Lightning 1.4 Provider for Google calendar 0.9 I'm working with Ubuntu 12.04 When I receive an event invitation from Outlook or Gmail, the mail is correctly identified by…
Laurent
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List of all Windows 7 Event IDs and Sources?

I'm looking for a complete list of Sources + Event IDs for Windows 7. I known there's many web site with built-in search to find informations about a specific source + event id such as Eventid.net but what I'm looking for a complete list of these…
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Computer randomly shuts off and restarts with Reason Code: 0x500ff

My buddy's computer keeps randomly restarting. Usually when he's playing a game. It has randomly restarted just when he's on YouTube.  Event Viewer says: The process C:\Windows\system32\winlogon.exe (SPENCER-DESKTOP) has initiated the power off…
Johnny Lin
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Windows event id for battery level change

I need to create a task in TS based on battery level change. Let's say my battery drops from 67% to 66%. How can I run a task based on this event. Does Windows log this at all? I couldn't find this information anywhere.
RiddleMeThis
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Adding route automatically after a successful VPN connection in Windows 10

I'm trying on my W10 to perform an automatic "route" command after a successful VPN connection. I tried it based on this short description here which is for W7 but seems so similar, but I can't make it work. My VPN connection is ok. It connects and…
OscarAkaElvis
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When was a file last accessed in Windows 7

Is it possible to see when a text file is opened on Windows 7? I looked in the with Event Viewer a little bit but I couldn't find where to see the logs about a specific text file being accessed.
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How to search for tasks and events in Mozilla Lightning/Thunderbird?

I can't find this function nowhere yet reading this post from ssitter in Integrate Unifinder into Lightning as it is in Sunbird bug in Mozilla's Bugzilla it looks like it was already implemented 3 years ago.
Piotr Dobrogost
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How can I determine whether a Windows logoff was manual or automated?

Here are two common ways users can be logged off of Windows: Manual: The user logs off manually Automated: The windows system logs off the user automatically via some mechanism Is there any way to determine (based on a stock Windows install, with…
George 2.0 Hope
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Which event ID is being returned when requesting LastBootTime?

If I use any of these powershell commands to return the LastBootUpTime... (Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime or Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem | select csname, lastbootuptime or Get-WmiObject…
ConanTheGerbil
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Windows Task Scheduler on File change

I am trying to synchronise my files between a Win7 Starter laptop and WinXP workstation. As Win7 Starter has limited sync support, I installed SyncToy 2.1 and it works fine. However, it requires my manually syncing the files. The help system…
Alex
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Event Viewer filter by source disabled

I've tried looking around other posts here as well as Microsoft community pages but to no luck. In my environment (Windows 10), the filtering by source is Event Viewer is blank, and I cannot open that drop down menu. This was possible on my old…
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