Restarting Aero Glass in Win7

I was sure I blogged this before, but I can’t find it here.

Occassionally, after disconnecting with TeamViewer, Win7 doesn’t want to reenable Aero Glass.  Usually, I just switch themes and it back, but that will also fail to work at times. 

Running an admin console using the following commands to get Aero Glass working correctly:

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

Android 2.2 (Froyo) issues

Well, it seems that there are some issues with Froyo.  After my automatic update it seems that at random times my GMail accounts stop updating (not good since we use Google Apps at my company), I don’t get notifications for voicemails and my text messages don’t appear until after I power-cycle.

I am having flashbacks to my last WinMo phone

New Maintenance Releases: VMWare Wks 7.1.1 and Oracle Vbox 3.2.8

Both Oracle and VM Ware have new updates.

Oracle Virtual Box is now 3.2.8

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
• GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
• GUI: don’t use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)
• 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
• PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
• OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
• USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
• USB: respect the remote-only filter
• USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
• USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)
• PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
• PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
• PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests
• Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
• Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
• Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
• Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
• BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
• LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
• Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks (see here for a short explanation)
• Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
• Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
• Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty “patterns” field (bug #7171)
• Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
• RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
• Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
• Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
• VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
• Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
• Web service: added timestamps to logging output
• Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII
• X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)

VM Ware Workstation 7.1.1, Release Notes

still need the reboots 😦

Slow Windows VPC Networking speed/access to hard drive

This is a little old, but it still pops up from time to time.

If you’re having network speed issues, VPC Genius Bob Comer has the fix:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprovirt/thread/b8061768-c173-4730-bebb-c5d79a1c9606/

The problem is TCP Offloading and Windows VPC not getting along, here’s how to work around the problem by turning off offloading:

 

 

The fix is to edit the registry, use at your own risk and only if you are comfortable with editing the registry!

To turn off TCP Offloading, add a DWORD value in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters

label it  DisableTaskOffload , and change the value to 1, then reboot.