Got a few questions I can't seem to find answers to anywhere...

First, I'm creating a Vmware unattended installation for a recovery CD I'm making, and basically, I need to stop VMNet1 and VMNet8 from being created during setup. When I install VMware, the VMnet1 and VMnet8 virtual adapters being created makes my network hiccup. Plus, it's annoying to have those 2 animated icons constantly blinking in the tray until I manually disable them.

Second, I have no need for Vmware perfmon in *any* form, and want it gone. I have the following keys in my registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib]
"Base Index"=dword:00000737
"ExtCounterTestLevel"=dword:00000004
"Last Counter"=dword:00001b2e
"Last Help"=dword:00001b2f
"Version"=dword:00010001
"Disable Performance Counters"=dword:00000001

Then this key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\VMware]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\VMware\Performance]
"Open"="PerfmonClose"
"Close"="PerfmonClose"
"Collect"="PerfmonCollect"
"Library"="C:
Program Files\\VMware
VMware Workstation
vmPerfmon.dll"
"Last Counter"=dword:00001af8
"Last Help"=dword:00001af9
"First Counter"=dword:00001ad4
"First Help"=dword:00001ad5
"Disable Performance Counters"=dword:00000000

Using Registry Monitor, I'm seeing a ton of Vmware perfmon events.

Changing the Disable Performance Counters to dword:00000001 or stopping the Vmware AuthD Service doesn't stop the collection, but instead VMAuthD complains the following 7 times every 5 seconds in my event log:

Failed to read registry perf object xxxxxxx (xxxx= name of 7 different counters)

So, that basically makes my Application log useless, as inside 10 minutes, it's full of Vmware errors!

That's basically it. There's a few other quirks, but i'll figure those out. These two, though, I could use some help.

Thanks in advance,

KZ