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Re: Windows 10 Notifications button and Action Center are permanently disabled in my Horizon session

spinjector — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:38:10 GMT

@sjesse I understand; I thought this was odd. I have considerable experience with vBox, and my thoughts were that any VMS simply provides the platform for an OS to run, and any operational issues with the OS are the OS's problem, not the VMS.

I also have experience with NTLite for Windows XP and Windows 7, and I know when you "lighten" Windows by ripping out some parts of it, they cannot be installed or enabled later.

On that note, can you suggest what part of Windows 10 might have been disabled, such as in "Turn Windows Features On or Off", or what Action Center DLLs or registry sections I could search for to see if they're missing..? I was looking at this webpage, and nothing jumped out at me (I cannot access this part of Windows Settings without an admin plugging in his password).

Windows 10 Notifications button and Action Center are permanently disabled in my Horizon sessions..?

spinjector — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:20:44 GMT

The Windows 10 notifications Taskbar button and Windows Action Center are missing from my Horizon sessions, and despite all attempts they cannot be made to appear.

I'm using Horizon Client version 5.5.2 build 18035009.

If I go to Settings > Notifications & Actions, the Notifications switch is turned on. If I flip it off & on again, the Notifications button still does not appear on the Taskbar.

If I go to Settings > Taskbar Settings > Turn System Icons On or Off, the switch for Action Center is grayed out.

I contacted the Support Desk for our VMWare service provider (they're a huge bunch of nerds and pretty good), and after trying various things with GPEdit and the registry, the support agent could not get the Action Center to become enabled, nor the button to appear on the Taskbar.

The support agent found the Horizon session he was using during our call also did not have the Notifications button, nor the Action Center. He also explained Horizon does not support all Windows 10 features, and Action Center might be one such feature that Horizon does not support.

I searched Google for any references to Horizon not supporting Notifications or Action Center, but found none. Nor did I find any references to anyone even mentioning it missing from their own Horizon sessions.

Thoughts? Solutions?

Thank you.

vSphere Client hotkeys to switch between guests..?

spinjector — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:36:16 GMT

Is there a vSphere Client keystroke to switch between running guest vms..?

In our vSphere Client, according to Help | About, I'm using using Client 5.5.0 build 4032365 with ESXi 5.5.0 build 1623387.

I found this document seems to indicate Ctrl+Alt+Left and Ctrl+Alt+Right should work, but they do not. Apparently our version is too old..? I cannot find anything in the settings to allow me to change hotkey assignments:

VMware Workstation Documentation Center

Re: Can a BIOS virus on the host affect/infect a client?

spinjector — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:21:11 GMT

well thats kinda what i thought... other than the network/internet connection, it would take a lot of twists & turns for any malware to wind their way into a guest os from the host...

Copy a real PC into a virtual image?

spinjector — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:36:03 GMT

Is it possible to take an existing PC and copy it's installation of Windows into a virtual image to run on VMware?

Assuming it would work at all, I do understand that Windows would freak out and probably want to reinstall all the drivers from the HAL all the way on up.

It would be great if I could take all these existing computers we have for process monitoring and control and turn them all into vitrual images.

Thanks.

Sharing an LPT port on the host?

spinjector — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:27:26 GMT

Are Windows-based clients able to use/share an LPT port on a Windows-based host?

If so, can someone direct me to the documentation that discusses it? I'm kind of lost.

Thanks.

Can a BIOS virus on the host affect/infect a client?

spinjector — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:25:01 GMT

Can a BIOS virus on a Windows-based host affect or infect a Windows-based client?

Re: SMP, multi-core, hyper-threading, etc.

spinjector — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:20:14 GMT

Ok, so the client can see 1-4 processors. Thanks.

On a host with 8 virtual processors (2x dual-core with hyperthreading), does VMware desktop use all 8 for its hosting processes? Even though a host only sees up to 4?

SMP, multi-core, hyper-threading, etc.

spinjector — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:59:41 GMT

How does VMware Desktop handle multiple CPU's...?

If a host has multiple virtual CPU's (as seen in Task Manager, for instance), how many would a guest see?

Can a guest be configured to only see a fixed number of CPU's..?

I ask these questions in the following context: I have an application that will natively use multiple CPU's, but it cannot run on a Windows 2003 Domain Controller. I thought perhaps I could install VMware Desktop on that server, and then install my app in a guest running Windows XP, but I wasn't sure if I should even try.

Re: Audio Hardware Support

spinjector — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:36:07 GMT

Ahh thank you, that is very good news.

I will download the trial version and see if it actually works for me.

Thanks.

Audio Hardware Support

spinjector — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:11:28 GMT

I'm looking at VMWare Desktop to consolidate (4) Windows Media Encoder streaming audio servers onto a single machine at a radio station where I work.

I've looked through the documentation, but found no concrete answer to the following question:

Can a VMWare Guest be configured to use a specific Windows WDM audio device on the host?

For instance, Guest #1 is assigned to use audio device #1, and so forth. These could be either PCI cards or USB audio dongles.

Thanks.