Stupid program, doesn’t trust anyone!
From: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1269/vista_show_unhide_file_extensions/
Enable the Display of File Extensions in Vista:
3. Click Folder Options
4. Click the View tab
5. Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types
6. Click OK
Installed VMware Server 2 on a new Vista install.
I had to create a password for the default user because VMware required it.
Apparently I can change the users within VMware and I’ll experiment with that
My client doesn’t want to use a password when they boot up.
Trouble entering the web interface because of certificate issues.
Found the answer at:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/176414
The old desktop shortcut was
“C:\\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\serverui.url”
I couldn’t change that shortcut so I created a new one for:
“http://localhost:8222/ui”
And that worked fine.
I struggled with making a shortcut to the virtual machine console for Ubuntu that would include a username and password. Silly, the switches worked but I had the capitalization wrong….
Time didn’t automaticaly update so I had to:
net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net time /setsntp:time.nist.gov
net start w32time
Once I rebooted it worked.
I turned off windows desktop search because the hard drive noise generated by indexing drove me crazy.
Control Panel /Administrative Tools /Services
Right click on Windows Search
Select Properties
Change “Enabled” to “Disabled”
Click on “Stop”
Done