VMWare goes crazy after latest Windows 7 update

camner — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:27:37 GMT

My Windows 7 machine became virtually unresponsive after the latest windows 7 update...symptoms include:

a. slow down to a crawl (30 minutes to startup/shutdown/start an app, etc)

b. Getting "stuck" on shutting down or starting up (leaving it for a couple of hours and never completing the process)

So I got a backup copy of the VM from a couple of months ago, and the virtual machine seemed to operate flawlessly....until I went into Windows Update and updated the system per what WU told me were "required" updates. Then, same symptoms.

I can always, when it gets stuck, do a force shutdown. If I start up with "safe mode plus networking," the machine seems to start up quickly. If I startup again in "normal" mode, same sort of flaky behavior. Some times the system will start up and behave normally, most of the time not.

I'm running the VM under 10.6.8 with 8GB RAM (with 2.8GB allocated to the VM) and 1 core, if that helps.

Thanks for any help folks might be.

Re: VMWare goes crazy after latest Windows 7 update

ColoradoMarmot — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:25:19 GMT

Make sure you turn off system restore in the VM.

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