Re: VM Blues

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

At 22/08/2014 16:17, you wrote:

Another Paul Bunyan sized thumbs
down for Win 8, if you're asking me.  


Well, apart from interface annoyances, the code base is thought to be of
higher quality than Win 7. I expect Win 9 will get all the elements
working together.


Bill, I had thought that at
least a couple of the VM solutions we've been discussing here _did have_
an Auto-Save backup feature ?


Looking into this further, apparently VM Player does not have snapshot
capabilities, except perhaps with hacking. You have to get the paid
version, Workstation, or whatever it's called, to get snapshots. Even
then, according to my limited reading, you can only save one snapshot at
a time.


As I've said before, I'd be using VirtualBox but I wanted XyWrite to work
perfectly, and the directory problem prevented that. Of course we now
thanks to Carl have some workarounds for that, so I may switch back to to
VBox, but it's a nuisance when everything else was working so smoothly.
Or I could just get the paid version of VMware.


Re search, one thing one desperately needs in Win 8 is the equivalent of
Win 7's 'search in Search Results' (i.e., whatever you have told it to
index). Getting there in Win 8 is not intuitive but I have discovered
that if one types 'Search Results' in the 'url bar' of Explorer, that
gets you to precisely (?) the Win 7 equivalent. What I have disliked
since XP is the inability to search contents of files without extension,
of which I have plenty. In spite of knowing perfectly well how doltish it
is, I still create filenames without extension, though only in XyWrite. I
love them!


I'll have a look at the program you mentioned.




Meanwhile, I saw a mention
somewhere online that Win 9 may be coming out in the next several months,
and that MS supposedly learned something from their fiasco with Win
8.  I wouldn't care to wager much on that.  Hope we can keep 7
going for another few years.  It has some issues (*), but overall is
pretty decent.  I don't want to have to start thinking about
virtualizing 7 inside of something later.  They may have run out of
road on this OS, after 7. 


[* From Day One with Win 7, I've been thoroughly disgusted with it's
puny, cryptic, exasperating Search function.  It's a whole lot worse
than the animated dog in XP, which you could get rid of with TweakUI,
leaving behind a solid search feature.  After a quick pass with
Google, I found a few alternatives.  I just installed this open
source one


 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filesearchclassic/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filesearchclassic/ 


which looks like it might be the replacement I wanted.]




   Jordan




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From: Bill Troop 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:55 AM


Subject: VM Blues




Recently, Win 8 forcefully upgraded itself (there was no clear way of



stopping it) and I forgot to close my VMware VM. Previously, in the



event of a crash, the VM had started up not where I left off, but



with a fresh boot. But this time, I got a dreaded message described
here:




http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004232
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004232




along with cryptic cures.



A better page was



https://communities.vmware.com/thread/464952
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/464952



and, indeed, closing VMware and deleting all possible .lck files



resulted in W2K booting again properly.



Clearly, I need some kind of auto-save mechanism!