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Actually, I think the biggest problem with this dialog box is not that it's present, it's that the question makes no sense.

As best I can tell, it's actually two questions merged into one, though the answers are still separated out, except the answer to the second question seems to depend on the first; but the first question isn't simply yes/no, it's yes/no(A)/no(B)/no(C), and by the time I've finished trying to parse the question and the proffered answers I've given up caring.

I can guess at what it's asking, but I'm a software developer. How is a normal end-user supposed to make an even halfway-informed choice?

If Windows is going to push these choices out in front of me, it needs to ask questions users can understand.



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