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[Closed] Strange unknown window that pops up when MAX is loading

For a very brief moment during MAX loading before any UI is shown, some strange window pops up… (max 2020)
It’s hard to see but it looks like this:
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Very fast from showing to hiding… ~100 ms.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this might be? Or maybe you know how to capture this…
I think it’s some part of the licensing process.

This window is not owned by the MAX main window. It probably appears before the MAX main window is created.

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I found who is causing that pop-up dialog box … as I expected – some Autodesk’s abomination … ADPClientService.exe

telemetry (aka. spyware)
you can turn that thing off in help-menu->>Feedback->Desktop Analytics Programm…
but not 100%, “Required data collection” is mandatory for whatever abstruse reasons

you kill it in task-manager, it comes back.
so i wrote a “spyware killer” for such intruders, quite intrusive that thing

from the log:
2023-09-15 15:32:17 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:17 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:18 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:18 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:19 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:20 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:20 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:21 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:21 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:22 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:22 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:23 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:23 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:24 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:25 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:25 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:26 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:26 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:27 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:27 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:28 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:28 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:29 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)
2023-09-15 15:32:29 –> killed “Autodesk Analytics Client Service” (ADPClientService.exe)