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Old 07-27-2009   #5 (permalink)
Raphael


 
 

Re: XP won't run any .exe starting with VM !??!

Hello,

I am experiencing exactly the same problem, any ideas ?

Thanks,
Raphael Neve
raph@xxxxxx


On 3 juil, 05:12, Jimmy Bosse <Jimmy Bo...@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:

> I am having the same problem. It didn't even occur to me to rename the file.
> I tried to reinstall the player and it wouldn't even do that! What a weird
> thing.
>
> "dlhayes" wrote:
Quote:

> > Freaky.. My VMware stopped working without notice. *I uninstalled the
> > VMplayer and attempted reinstalling, to my shock, I didn't have permission to
> > install. *Following attempts showed no warnings. *Tricked the reinstaller by
> > renaming it to 'player.exe' and it worked. *VMWare player still didn't work,
> > changed the VMplayer.exe to Mplayer.exe and it opened, but subsequent
> > services it calls (VMdns.exe, VMservices.exe etc) can't be opened. *Ichange
> > notepad.exe to vmnotepad.exe and it fails. *How on earth? Anyone hazard a
> > guess? Malbytes shows up clean.
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