how to change my display name as amazon mturk requester? - amazon-web-services

I am trying to change my display name as a requester in mturk. Instead of my real name, I want a company name to show up.
Whatever I tried, did not make this change.
I tried changing my name in "Account Settings" in mturk, my global Amazon name, my Amazon address, nothing helped.
Also, I get inconsistent behavior with respect to what's shown in the greeting when I log-in to mturk. Sometimes the company name is shown, and sometimes my real name is shown (in the same spot).
(for workers, my real name is always displayed.)
I am not the first to have this problem:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=209269

Changing your name can be done online by following these steps:
Log into your Requester account at -- https://requester.mturk.com/
Click the "My Account" link in the upper right corner.
Under "Personal Settings", click the "Edit" button next to your name.
Log into the following screen to confirm ownership of the account.
Click the "Edit" button next to your name again.
Update your name and click the "Save Changes" button.
The change won't take effect shortly. It took a couple of hours in my experience, and somebody said 48+ hours. Anyway, being patient would be helpful.

Go to amazon.com and sign in. Click Your account, and then under settings, click Change Account Settings.
Editing the name there will change the name displayed to workers for Requester:.
Source: I just did this and it worked for me.

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Go to the Act option in the sidebar menu
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Add an error action too if you wish
Click Create Rule
Press your button and confirm that your Lambda function ran!
I'm assuming you could put your button's DSN in place of the + in the select statement if you have more than one button.

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When I try to create a region, either by clicking the + next to Regions, or by right-clicking on Regions>Content Body>"Create Region", APEX just creates a region with static content. It does NOT present the create region wizard.
Why is this?
A basic question, hopefully someone can help me here.
Thanks in advance.
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for form region click to + button on the top of your page then chooose your type of form region you want
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For example when a virtual machine cpu usage go over a value that I have set as 'alarm value' or when a virtual machine disk space usage go over a value vsphere send an email/notification that inform me.
I try to navigate over the menu but I don't find anything like this.
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Groups API - someGroup.setShowInGroupDirectory(true) - "List this group in the directory" is checked - group not appearing in "Browse All"

Google Apps for Business account here.
SETUP
I am creating a new group using the Directory API -> all ok.
I am then doing the following:
get the Group I just created using the Groups API and assign it
to "someGroup"
invoke "someGroup.setShowInGroupDirectory(true)"
patch "someGroup" using the Groups API
No issues on the execution - everything comes back with no complaints.
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I am using vc++. I am trying to create a "front end" which will create a task and put that in " Window's native Scheduler". The task's action is invoking a backup app. Every task needs some privileges to execute the given program. I need to assign administrator privileges to this task. I can assure that the front end can be run by admin only. Now I want to use assign the current user's(admin) privileges to the task. Upto the dig I did in internet/msdn , the api provides below two options( 3rd option is my assumption)
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684190(VS.85).aspx