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• VMI customer - guest operating system listing changes randomly

  Just curious to know if anyone has noticed this:

  In the Client of VMI, randomly changes the list of guest operating system.  In my case I see that MS Windows 2008 64-bit randomly change for MS Vista 64-bit.  If you check thesettings for the virtual machine, it registers the correct operating system.  Nothing seems to be affected, just a bug is interesting.

  If seen this as well... Some of our boxes as well under Vista report W2k8.  This will not affect your VM, just a step a helpful Visual.

• How do I redo effect after restarting the guest operating system?

  Hi all

  I use VMWare Server 2 and VMWare Player 2.x. We had to redo it to hard drive. But it is only valid after the power off and power on the guest operating system.

  We want to be effective after the guest OS restarts from himself.

  Our guest operating system is Windows XP Pro 32 bit, server host is OpenSUSE 11.1, player host is Windows 7.

  Thanks in advance.

  Kind regards

  Cavendish

  Hello

  According to Manual of VMware server, you can only discard all changes the disk not persistent after power out voltage or reset.

  You can use the reset vmrun command if you want to turn off your virtual machine. You must use the reset option (it has the same function as Reset button on the real machine).

  J.

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• Time changes after restart System

  original title: clock issues

  the date and time on my pc should be set every day because it does not, how can I fix

  Hi steve. INA,

  1. did you of recent changes on the computer?

  2. do you have security software installed on the computer?

  Method 1

  It is possible that some third-party programs installed on the computer is causing the problem.

  I suggest that you configure the computer in a clean boot state and check if it helps.

  To help resolve the error and other messages, you can start Windows XP by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This type of boot is known as a "clean boot". A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  See section to learn more about how to clean boot.

  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  Reset the computer to start as usual

  When you are finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

  1. Click Start , and then click run.
  2. Type msconfig , and then click OK.
     The System Configuration utility dialog box appears.
  3. Click the general tab, click Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services , and then click OK.
  4. When you are prompted, click restart to restart the computer.

  Method 2

  If the previous step fails, then you need to check if the time changes system even in the system Bios after the computer restart.

  You will need to consult the computer manual to find out how to start the system Bios or contact the computer manufacturer.

  Important: Change (CMOS) BIOS/complementary metal oxide semiconductor settings can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the configuration of the BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Changes to settings are at your own risk.

• VM does not start after the crash of the guest operating system

  VM Workstation 10.03

  Host OS Ubuntu 12.04

  Guest OS Windows XP SP3

  VM normally works well under VM for over a year.

  While I was updating a mp3 Player XP is crushed, and even power off the virtual machine does not work.

  After a Resart of the host operating system, the guest could not start.

  I deleted the directory .lck file.

  When I start the VM OS prompt written

  Loading... - VMware Workstatiion

  and nothing else happens.

  Another guest operating system will work very well.

  How can I restart my XP?

  After a day down from the host (a very cold reboot) and deleting all .lck files.

  VM aloowed me to dispose of the session.

  After that cold booted XP as it was before.

  Thanks to a.p. to put me on the right forum.

• Is it possible to install multiple copies of Windows 7 in Virtualbox as guest operating system

  Hello

  My laptop runs on Linux OS, I installed VirtualBox. Now, I would like to install multiple copies of Windows 7 on VirtualBox as a guest operating system.

  Is this possible?

  My activation will expire after 3 installations?

  What are the limits in this situation?

  Microsoft treats several facilities in VirtualBox (as guest operating system) as a single installation instance? I think that the hardware (motherboard) is used as a fingerprint to detect changes in the systems, but as the material is going to be the same custom installation will be treated as a single instance?

  Help, please...

  Thank you

  one

  Hello

  There are not 3 installs with 1 license

  A Windows license is for a single installation, and this includes in Virtual Machines.

  See you soon.

• Surface Pro 3 - errors when you try to start a guest operating system 64-bit

  I get the following errors setting up an Ubuntu guest operating system.

  This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit operating systems. However, the 64-bit mode is not possible.

  This host supports Intel VT - x, but Intel VT - x is disabled.

  Intel VT - x can be disabled if it has been disabled in the BIOS/firmware settings or host was not powered by bicycle since changing this setting.

  (1) check that the settings BIOS/firmware activate Intel VT - x and disable "trust execution."

  2 turn on the host if either of these BIOS/firmware settings have been changed.

  (3) turn on the host if you have not done since the installation of VMware Workstation.

  (4) update of the BIOS/firmware from the host to the latest version.

  I've been Googling this problem since yesterday and so far, I have not come to any possible solution. Certainly, I can install the 32-bit linux flavor, but that doesn't help me when I run the installation to other 64-bit operating systems.

  I was able to resolve the issue, after most googleing. I'm always a little surprised that it works, but hey, Ubuntu is installing.

  I installed Microsoft Visual Studio, including phone windows SDK (must be included).  I disabled and then Hyper-V by issued this command in a shell of administrator command:

  bcdedit/set hypervisorlaunchtype

  If you want to reactivate it, you then type this command

  bcdedit/set auto hypervisorlaunchtype

  WinSupersite credit for the tip (link http://winsupersite.com/mobile-devices/surface-pro-3-tip-hyper-v-vs-connected-standby)

  Once I rebooted and restarted Vmware, I could start Ubuntu and start the installation process.

• Error: The "centos64guest" guest operating system is not supported.

  Hello

  Did someone met this kind of mistake? Error: the "centos64guest" guest operating system is not supported. This happens during the recovery after disaster, the 64-bit centos OS prompt never switch on after the opening of the option "IP address change. While my windows 2003 and 2008 R2 are successful.

  Hello

  According to the compatibility matrix, customization of CentOS VMs is not officially supported:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/SRM/SRM-compat-matrix-5-0.html --> Guest Operating Sysytem customization Support

  Michael.

• Snapshot before resizing the guest OS system partition, it will allow me to roll back if problems arise?

  I currently have an ESXi Server vsphere 4.0 with Windows 2003 Server comments on that operating system. And just to be clear, this virtual machine is a control area on the network.

  The problem I have is that the system partition (C drive on the guest operating system) is running out of room. I have plenty of room in the data store where the virtual machine, so I added 30 GB drive under disk space commissioning in additional virtual machine settings page. The configuration type is thick. So everything seems to work great so far, I see this space as unallocated within the guest OS.

  After some research, I found several tools that help me to inresizing the system partition to take advantage of the additional disk space. Specifically, I intend to use the dell (ExtPart) DiskExt utility to resize the partition in order to reduce downtime. Apparently, this tool works without restarting the Windows machine.

  My question is, if I make a snapshot before you try to resize the partition of guest operating system, this would allow me to go back and cancel any potential damage that resizing of disk can cause? I understand that I expected to be able to undo a change such as this with a snapshot, I just want to be 100% sure.

  And no, I'm not trying to use a snapshot as a substitute for a backup. I do a snapshot to reduce downtime in case of a problem.

  Any information on this would be highly appreciated.

  I guess I over thought the process a little too, so I tested.  Works like a charm.  extended to the HDD via the vSphere Client, created a snapshot, ran extpart extend drive C:, delete the snapshot.  VM, although not a controller domain and just a test VM, is functional and happy.

• VMPlayer newbie - switch back and forth between the host and the guest operating system

  I am newbie to VMPlayer. I just installed VMPlayer 3.0.0 build-203739 on Red Hat Linux 5 (host). Then I created a VM comments Kubuntu (8.10). So far so good. In the VMPlayer window, I selected 'play Virtual Machine '. After this, the host operating system controls disappeared and I could see a taskbar on the top of my screen and I could also see Kubuntu startup (in an area of the small window in the center of the screen). The problem I'm running is that I'm not able to navigate outside of this area of the small window. I'm not even able to click/Select the taskbar of VMPlayer top of the screen. The mouse movement is limited to the area of the small window. How to and fro my host and the guest operating system? Is there a key combination? I finally had to stop my VM guest to return to the control of my host system. I guess it's a problem quite newbie that I am running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Hello, welcome to the forum

  Host Windows to switch between comments and the OS (when you are in the guest operating system), you must use ctrl + alt.

  According to this link , it's the same thing in Linux host too.

  >Default VMware Player uses key combination Ctrl + Alt to jump out of the guest. Then CTRLAltdel is accessible via theAltInsert command. If you find this annoying, you can change the jump shortcut to CtrlAltshift by adding the following lines to your ~/.vmware/preferences:

  > pref.hotkey.shift = "true".

  > pref.hotkey.control = "true".

  > pref.hotkey.alt = "true".

  After your installation OS in the virtual machine, install "VMware Tools" on it so you will get better performance and some improvements (like moving your mouse out of guest to your host operating system operating system and Vice Versa, or be able to copy beyond host/guest, better resolution on reviews and...)

  I hope it helps a bit.

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• problems to receive a guest operating system

  Hello

  I have to be able to do a query on Windows 2003 virtual machines that use the BusLogic SCSI card.  However, I am having a problem just get the operating system of each guest.  Many guests (seems to be about 800 out of our 1200 guests) return a null value (I'd say less than 10 of them are turned off).  I tried with both the 1.0 version of the VI and also just upgraded to 1.5 to check that it has not been fixed.  Here again, I'm not 100% sure it's a problem with the Toolbox.  Anyway, that's what I've tried so far.

  First of all, I found a good virtual machine (vm1) and a bad VM (vm2).  I created two variables:

  $vm1 = Get-VM vm1name
  $vm2 = Get-VM vm2name
  

  Then I tried simply to list the property Guest.OSFullName of each virtual machine:

  $vm1.Guest.OSFullName <-- returned Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit)
  $vm2.Guest.OSFullName <-- returned nothing
  

  Other "guest" properties seem well as evidenced by the following output:

  "$vm2.Guest" returns:
  
  State          IPAddress            OSFullName
  -----          ---------            ----------
  Running        {1.2.3.4}
  

  The only other thing that I noticed (and I'm going to file a SR for the same problem when I am back in the office on Wednesday) is that if you view all virtual machines in the VI Client and guest OS type, there are a lot of things that just say 'unknown '.  I've noticed this on 2.0/3.0 and now I'm under U3 2.5 and 3.5 U3 everywhere.  If you simply to change the settings of the virtual machine and click OK (without making any changes to anything) it will fix the guest operating system 'unknown '.  If you click on the 'Options' of the section of edit VM settings tab, it shows the correct guest OS it.  However, after click on this tab by clicking OK causes an error message something to not be able to change this setting in the current state (power on).  Nevertheless, at the beginning I thought all the unknowns explained my missing Microsoft VMs, but there are more than 100 virtual machines or so that are listed as unknown, so I am always short way.

  Finally, I searched this topic on the forums and learned about the Get-VMGuest cmdlet, which I managed for ever noticed before.  So, I tried the following:

  $vm2 | Get-VMGuest
  

  And got the same results as above (shows its power status and the IP address, but any type of OS).  VM1 works very well with the above code.

  Does anyone have ideas on this?  I even buried down and use Get-View and pulls the. Property Guest.GuestFullName out and it is also empty.

  Hi Allen,.

  I've never known tools that are so far out of date that you do not get a guest operating system, but I wouldn't be surprised it. You should always be able to get out the Tools version number in any case (even if not Get-VMGuest in this version).

  There is a significant difference between these people that the prompt that signals the VMware Tools is the real guest OS. The comments you get Get - VM or Config.GuestFullName is the value that is set when creating the virtual machine. This value cannot be identical to the real host. For example, I could create a virtual machine, select Windows 2003, and then install Redhat on it. In this case, Get - VM would net the VM as a machine virtual Windows while the tools would (correctly) reported as Redhat.

  In general, use tools when you can. If you don't get given tools, it can be wrong.

• System restored automatically after the installation of updates & a few missing desktop icons.

  Original title: same set of updates on both computers due to different problems, one problem being a system restore.

  I have two Windows 7 computers in my house.  They all have two problems after installing updates a month ago.  The problem for 'Computer 1' is a bigger problem than the problem of the "Computer 2".  2 computer problem not really seems to be a problem now, but I'll give you the information for comparison purposes. Sorry for the length of this post - I am trying to be thorough.

  1 COMPUTER DETAILS:

  News of the computer: Dell Studio 1745 laptop computer running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, six months at the time of the problem, now age of seven months. It came with Norton pre-installed, never used and uninstalled.  Trend Micro Internet Security installed at the beginning of the use of the computer.  Analyses Micro trend came clean.

  Background: set up with a single account (Administrator, of course) and after a few days of putting in place computer, said ale user account for everyday use.  Computer is configured to warn me before downloading/installation of updates of Windows, with permission for each type of account to install Windows updates.

  While in the standard account, I welcomed these download/install updates and was prompted to restart the computer.  I was done with the computer, so I just closed instead of restart.  According to "Your update history Review", it's updates and they were all successful:

  Update for Windows 7 for x 64-based systems (KB980846)
  Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile for Windows 7 x 64-based Systems (KB982670)
  Update for Windows 7 for x 64-based systems (KB982519)
  Update Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for x 64 systems (KB982526)
  Cumulative update for Media Center for Windows 7 x 64-based Systems (KB981078)

  After you turn on computer back, everything seemed normal.  I opened Firefox and I got a notice that Firefox has an update is available, a standard user cannot.  Unlike some programs, there is no popup to sign as an administrator, so I went to start > switch user and signed as an administrator.  (There was no update of Firefox at this point - just a switch single user.) That's where the problem appeared: instead of normally load the admin Office, I had to wait while Windows configured my desk (it's new)... wait... wait... wait... wait... BAM!  Your computer has been successfully restored * insert date here * (I don't remember what it was - January of this year, perhaps - because I was so incredulous that it happened and I continued to watch the game "successfully restored").  I do not have the computer to eat, and it don't has not asked me if I wanted to restore it.  He just did, just on its own initiative, when I went on the admin account.  A bunch of shortcut icons are missing from the Office of the admin acct and the ACCT. standard, and wallpaper to the admin account has been changed.  I am not absolutely sure if nothing else was touched.

  I have searched online to try to understand why it happened, and I remember well from my only find, is that if I went to the restoration of the system, there will be an option to cancel it, but I don't see such an option. So I told the computer to eat on a few days to a week before that updates.  It doesn't seem to help.  Shortcut icons are still missing.  Looked at the update history and it shows the five latest updates as being installed successfully, but Windows Update tells me that I need to these five updates AND this time, the little check marks are only already there on four of the five updates listed.  (The first time, the little checkmarks were already there for all five.)  This is the update that is NOT now pre-checked:

  Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile for Windows 7 x 64-based Systems (KB982670)

  Do not reinstall the five updates.  I don't know if I should jump install them again, or if I should install only the
  now, four are already "pre-checked."  I'm very hesitant to install KB982670, because this update seems to be the likely cause of the problem given the fact that it is already pré-coché in the Windows and the following information updates for computer 2.

  Since I installed the latest updates for 1 computer with no apparent problems:

  X 64-July Windows malicious software removal tool (KB890830) 2010
  Update security for Windows 7 for x 64-based systems (KB2032276)

  NEWS ON COMPUTER 2:

  The computer news: Systemax desktop running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, a month at the time of the problem, now age of two months.  It has not come with any pre-installed antivirus.  Trend Micro Internet Security installed at the beginning of the use of the computer.  Analyses Micro trend came clean.

  Reminder: Set up immediately with an admin account and a standard account for everyday use.  Computer has been set to automatically download and install updates for Windows, but is about to inform me first.

  At the time of the problem above with the laptop, desktop computer has been enabled.  As all loading,.
  an error message came that there was some kind of issue with the .NET framework.  At another person asked if he knew what was up with that, and it didn't.  Did not note the specific message, thinking he would tell me again if there was a real problem.  I thought it could have been some kind of Windows hiccups when starting the computer, not even knowing about update problems.  I have yet to see this message.  After the number of laptop (computer 1), I took a peek at the desktop computer (computer 2) to check that Windows Update and I saw that an update is available, which is the referenced above same update that the notebook had already the check mark in its box (KB982670), which gives me the choice to check the little to install it.  Very curious, since, as already mentioned, the computer has been configured to automatically download and install Windows updates.  Looked at the update history, and it has already downloaded and installed the other four updates that the laptop has been.  Changed the automatic Windows Update setting to warn me before you download and install updates.  I have not installed the missing update.  Said the only other person in the House who would probably bother install updates to not install it.

  A month later, 2 computer has a notification from Windows update that 21 or 22 updates are available (as a result, by clicking on the icon of the trial of Microsoft Office).  The update not installed a month ago is no longer on the list, and update history shows as having been installed a few days before, apparently because someone else in the House must have thought it looked like a good idea.  I installed all the 'important' updates and have not seen any more problems with computer 2.

  BACK TO THE COMPUTER 1:

  Yes, is there anyone with ideas on how to get 1 computer back to its state before the 5 updates listed above, and what to do about to reinstall some or all of them, I hope, without more problems, for example a random food system does not happen?  I have a feeling I will say that the random system restoration do not occur, but he did.

  Thanks for any help.

  No, I don't use the Norton removal tool.

  IN RE COMPUTER 1 ONLY:

  1. download the Norton Removal Tool, save it to your desktop: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe

  2. close all open applications (that is, anything with an icon on the taskbar).

  3. click right on the file saved in #1 above, and then select run as administrator to run the utility. DO TAP not your keyboard until the race ends, then restart.

  4 for good measure, reset Windows Update by...

  How to reset the Windows Update components?
  -Online skip the section to APPLY to; KB971058 access via I8 32-bit only; Run the difficulty in DEFAULT and modes, then AGGRESSIVE [1]
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

  5. restart & test.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  [1] full Disclosure: the difficulty operating in AGGRESSIVE mode will delete your update history (but not list updates in the updates installed)

  ~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

• System does not boot up... message is... "" peripheral USB on the detected... current situation system turns off after 15 seconds.

  I recently bought a new golf gps device and connected to my desktop pc to register. After unplug his computer m USB cable I can't start my computer.

  whenever I start it the pc his usual routine, but then I saw the following message... USB device to the system detected. System turns off after 15 seconds.l

  Fifteen seconds after the system shuts down. It wiil also not afford to start or access the safe mode, the program installation or any other type of recovery mode, I could access normally. It will also not recognize my Win XP installation disc. I guess it's because of the configuration of the BIOS which accesses the hard drive before the CD rom drive.

  The problem was obviously created by the golf gps USB cable but I can't find a way to get the system to boot so I can find a way to eliminate the problem.

  Thanks for any help that anyone can provide. I am running WinXP Sp3

  Hi PAULARUNNELS,

  ·         What happens when you try to start in the Advanced startup options?

  ·         You receive the same error?

  ·         You external devices connected now?

  Try the following.

  Method 1: Disconnect external devices not essential, connected to the computer and restart the computer.

  Method 2: Load default BIOS (Basic Input\Output System) settings, and then restart the computer. Make sure that you have the CD drive set as first boot device. Check the settings by consulting the manual or call the manufacturer to do so.

  Note: Be careful when you change the BIOS settings. The BIOS interface is designed for advanced users, and it is possible to change a setting that can prevent your computer from starting properly.

  Method 3: If you are unable to start on one of the advanced startup options, and then you can follow this article.

  How do I recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP startup

• Possible Hijack, System get "changed" or perhaps "partially virtualized" virus strange very important situation

  I have a problem with 2 computers and its kind of a large.  Hard to know where to start so I'll keep it short, but I think it may concern even Microsoft, because it involves the use of what I believe to be false "terms of service" or small print and I knew even where the source of this problem is, but I really need help! Myself and others use laptops we bought together.  We live in a family, but laptops, a TOSHIBA and a HP/COMPAQ F700 satellite, as well as what I call a wireless router belong to the USA! We are connected through this wireless device, a PRISM which is perhaps a bit older, but of course seems to work, it is plugged into a modem cable motorola belonging to someone else in the House.  To make things moving along, he came to our attention that A: our systems periodically change without our permission, by that I mean that the toshiba that was purchased at walmart brand new, came with an Intel Celeron, and I think THAT the wireless card IS an atheros brand.  I KNOW that was the case with the Compaq regarding the wireless adapter, and Compaq was bought at a rent to own store and came with a 1 GB ram AMD processor.  For some reason, we are under some form of control Admin, and our system is changing periodically on BOTH computers to say his family chipset intel and our wireless adapters will go to realtek USB 2.0, once again on BOTH computers.  When this happens, our user accounts admin, that we had as an administrator user accounts AND I have unlocked the hidden via the cmd prompt and hold SHIFT + ENTER thing, will be signed in some way limit our ability to do things.  LAST FEW DETAILS, I promise you: the so-called matrix memory of intel as magically appeared with software RAID of surveillance and we saw our event logs, which we prob didn't know existed, being transferred by a remote user, and we have never consulted the remote adjustment, except in order to turn them off, as well as file sharing options.  However they continue to change when this happens.  Yesterday, to finish that, I found strange things after doing a thing of complete system repair, not for the first time, this time on the compaq.  After the repair, which seemed fine at first, I was embarrassed to find a few shortcuts readme present in the recently amended on the start menu folder.  I followed them to the folder locations that led me to the prog. files, THE SIMS 2, and various subfolders with S.W.R. claiming to be from MICROSOFT and don't mention any particular O.S. except with reference to .NET and some virtualization programs that we noticed the menu running task.  OH, I shouldn't forget that with the processor changes in both pc, THEY BOTH now say that they ar x 86 client or PC workstation and a recent attempt on the repair of the system or pressing f8 on the toshiba somehow led me to a weird command prompt which began with X : ??  I'm prob a few things set aside even if it is really long, but the SIMS 2 folder is very disturbing because a person who lives here once gave us a CD on an old computer that has not been used for at least 3 years and we have certainly not installed this game WE NEITHER of these new computers.  I SUSPECT SOME things but don't know what to do.  I TRIED to get our product off the coast of the TOSHIBA key but was said previously by a repairman it seems to have BEEN DELETED!  The records in question, according to me, are always on both pc and we executed the software suggested, including microsoft security databases, s.s.and destroy, and the malewarebytes thing, as well as to have a repair shop gives us some tips. They said several things, like the toshiba tried to boot from the drive cd/DVD, then boot pxe or something and someone had changed the wake on lan option, and maybe other things I do not remember.  OK SORRY FOR ALL this THAT REALLY, but I wanted to make sure that I gave as much information as possible because we never wanted our PC clone, virtualized, or something like that, whatever realtek usb 2.0 is, it's another icon of the wireless connection in the tray on the lower right AND THE COMPAQ is REMAINED CONNECTED WITH the off switch wireless?  Help!

  Thank you for your gracious reply. It certainly sounds to me like your computers are compromised. As I said, the only way to fix now is to restore as long as the plant once more after you back up your data and then set them up by the suggestions below. It costs you nothing but time. I'll also give you my general information on the configuration of the network wireless safely. Unfortunately, you must have control of the wireless router to do this. If you do not, then consider doing your own Internet connection and wireless router. Addition to the steps of General safety below, make sure that file/printer sharing is DISABLED.
  
  The result of all this is to keep on the front of your mind is that security, physical access to a machine trumps all. If you do not trust the people with whom you live and/or people who visit them, you have to keep the computer with you or in a locked environment that no one else can enter. And of course the locks can be chosen. Or find the best people to live with. I understand that this is not possible in your real world, but I'm telling you all the options.

  Computer security - any computer running an operating system is accessible by a person with 1) physical access; (2) time; (3) jurisdiction; (4) tools of. There are a few things you can do to make it a little more difficult but:

  1. define a password in the BIOS that must be entered before starting the operating system. Also to set the supervisor password in the BIOS so the BIOS configuration cannot be entered without it.

  2. starting at the BIOS, change the order of boot to hard drive first.

  3. set strong passwords on all accounts, including the built-in XP administrator account (it is disabled by default in Vista).

  4. If you leave your own account connected, use Windows key + L to lock the computer (or set the screen/power economy saver) when you step away from the computer and require a password to use.

  5. do the other accounts of users limited in XP Home, regular user accounts in XP Pro. All users must be on a Standard account in Vista with an administrator account (called something like 'Tech' or 'CompAdmin') only used for purposes of elevation.

  6. If more than one person uses the computer user set permissions/restrictions:

  If you have XP/Vista/Windows 7 Home, you don't have the built-in ability to create fine-grained limits. In XP and Vista, you can use the Security Console or MVP Doug Knox or the program MS SteadyState to set restrictions as you wish. SteadyState now supports Vista but not Windows 7. Mr. Knox security console may still work in Win7.

  http://www.dougknox.com
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/products/winfamily/SharedAccess/default.mspx
  Information about SteadyState - http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=27570
  SteadyState support - http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssteadystate/threads/
  SteadyState How - to (not supported in Windows 7 still) - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/6520/windows-steadystate/

  Please understand that these are technical answers to what is essentially a technical problem and there are ways around these precautions. It is a problem of family / interpersonal which cannot be solved by technical means.

  Establishing a safe wireless router - have a computer connected to the router with an ethernet cable. Examples given are for a Linksys router. See the manual of your router or the router mftr's Web site. for the parameters by default if you don't have a Linksys. Open a browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox and in the address bar type:

  http://192.168.1.1 [Enter] (it is default IP address of the router, which varies from router to router then check your manual)

  This will bring you to the login screen of the router. The default username is blank and the Linksys default password is "admin" without the quotes. Enter this information. You are now in the configuration of the router utility. Your configuration utility may be slightly different from mine. The first thing to do is to change the password by default because everyone knows the default passwords for different routers.

  Click the Administration link at the top of the page. Enter your new password. MAKE A NOTE SOMEWHERE THAT YOU WILL NOT LOSE. Re-enter the password to confirm it, and then click Save settings at the bottom of the page. The router will reboot and show you the box of connection again. Do not fill in the user name and put it in your new password to enter the configuration utility.

  Now, click on the link wireless at the top of the page. Change the network name (SSID) wireless by default to something, you'll recognize. I suggest that my clients not use their surname as the SSID. For example, you might want to name your network wireless network "CastleAnthrax" or similar. ;-)

  Click on save settings and when you get the prompt that your changes were successful, click the wireless security link which is just beside the Basic Wireless Settings link (where you changed your SSID). Most computers purchased during the last 4 years have the wireless hardware that will support WPA2-Personal (also known as WPA2-PSK). This is the desired encryption level. If your wireless hardware is older, use WPA. Don't use WEP, because who is easily broken within minutes. So go ahead and set the Security Mode WPA2-Personal. Do this and enter a password. For example, you could use the password ' here be dragons, beware you scurvy dogs! The password is what you enter on all computers that are allowed to connect to the wireless network. MAKE A NOTE SOMEWHERE THAT YOU WILL NOT LOSE.

  At this point, your router is set up and if the computer that you use to configure the router will normally connect wireless, disconnect the ethernet cable and wireless of the computer should see your new network. Enter the password that you have created (exactly as you wrote it with all capital letters and punctuation) to join the network and start surfing.

  If you want to develop me on this or have any other questions, feel free to ask. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• Guest operating system fails in VirtualBox

  Hello

  I installed Windows 8 teacher and it's a real pack. From now on, I have no probs for use with all other packages.
  But recently I wanted to install Oracle Virtual Box and install an OS linux as a guest operating system.
  In the VirtualBox, I could install Windows XP without no prb. But when I try to install CentoS 6.3. Right after installing all the packages and when restarted, I got the following error message.
  Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager has stopped working.
  Y at - it something I can do to fix them?

  Thank you

  Chauvin

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