ARP.EXE, conhost.exe, and ROUTE.exe were using up a lot of my desktop resources. After a lot of fun, I tracked the issue down to two system services:
Windows Azure Guest Agent
Windows Azure Telemetry Service
Using msconfig, I disabled the services and rebooted. All is well.
I was struck by this mess of a spyware virus and it took good amount of time to remove.
You will see stuff all over the web on how to remove TinyWallet, but this was different. tiiniywalleet wouldn’t react to any of the popular tools.
In the long run, I ended up uninstalling Chrome, then ran Cclearner.
Uninstall Chrome
Follow these steps:
http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-tinywallet-virus/
Then run CCleaner
Dear VMware,
Please fix the copy/paste function in your VMware Player. Every time I copy a file from the client to the host, Player will make ANOTHER copy of the file. This is nice when you are trying to figure out why your host is running out of drive space.
What I have done is create a small batch file that will truncate the VMwareDnD folder on Startup.
1. Create a batch file.
2. In that batch file you will want to provide the path to your VMwareDnD folder.
Total noob error on my part.
rebooted my test box and started to see this error:
NTLRD is missing
Turned out that my system was trying to boot from an external hard drive I had connected to the box. Unplugged the drive and rebooted and the system is back to normal.
Windows Server 2008 R2
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if you are running VMware and need to expand the virtual disk size, here is the simply way to do it.
in windows Start – – > Run – -> CMD
cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 30Gb “C:\path where your virtual disk is stored\name of your virtual disk.vmdk”
lets break this down.
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x (how large you want the disk to be)Gb “where the virtual disk is located, dont point this to the -flat file”
example (this is exactly what i put in the DOS prompt, including the quotation marks ” ” )
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 99Gb “C:\VMstuff\myDisk.vmdk”
after messing with this for way too long I found a REAL easy answer to the question.
downloaded and installed this tool http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm
Download the ISO CD image to a folder on your computer.
Insert a blank CD in your CD-RW drive
Locate the ISO file, right-click the file name, and then click Copy image to CD to open the ISO Recorder Wizard.
That is it… too easy!