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If you have trouble convincing someone of this, I wrote a little helper application you can install on their computer. It pops up a focus-stealing "WARNING: Are you sure? [Ok] [Cancel]" dialog at random every 10-40 minutes, irrespective of what they are doing at that time. A day of that, and they should get the point. Executable and source download at the bottom of the rant: http://www.expert-overflow.com/areyousure/



Be careful, you may be stepping on Microsoft's IP. Windows Vista's UAC feature had it first.




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