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A spurious dialog box (informative, no?) keeps popping up on reboot.
What's an easy way to figure out what clearly-very-well-coded-piece-of-software threw it up there? I've reduced the startup list to a minimal list to no avail.
Peter S Magnusson
Posted 2009-11-12T19:46:07.280
Reputation: 553
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Sysinternals Process Explorer has this feature in the form of a crosshair that you drag over any window or widget. Click the "crosshair button" and drag to the window, then release.
Josh Lee
Posted 2009-11-12T19:46:07.280
Reputation: 1 553
Nice, thanks! I've been using Process Explorer for years and I never knew about that! – Aaron Miller – 2014-06-22T01:19:06.133
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In task manager, you should be able to right click it and select Go to process, which will open the processes tab and highlight the executable:
If that isn't helpful, Winspector (basically Spy++) can give you a better idea:
John T
Posted 2009-11-12T19:46:07.280
Reputation: 149 037
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Check out Winspector. Install it & run. Switch the Window list's tab to Process. Then drag and drop the red "foresight" from the upper left corner of Winspector onto that dialog box. Winspector will highlight which process owns the message box.
sYnfo
Posted 2009-11-12T19:46:07.280
Reputation: 1 902
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If you are already running AutoHotkey (and if you aren't, why not?) then you could use its Window Spy utility to locate the culprit.
JMD
Posted 2009-11-12T19:46:07.280
Reputation: 4 427
It doesn't you the process – zumalifeguard – 2017-09-15T00:24:11.620
1Just out of curiosity, what was the program? – Duncan X Simpson – 2015-08-19T03:04:34.753
I'm also curious what the program was. – David Refoua – 2018-06-16T16:43:50.393