Hello everyone!

I've recently switched to Win7 Pro on a three year old notebook and I am very pleased. The machine went from "bogged down hard and soon to be replaced" to a performance machine.

In order to save resources when I do not use Vmware Workstation, I have set all its services to manual and wrote a batch file to stert them only when I need to - and stop them thereafter:

@echo off
net start "VMware Authorization Service"
net start "VMware DHCP Service"
net start "VMware NAT Service"
net start "VMware USB Arbitration Service"
start /wait "C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe -x C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx"
net stop "VMware Authorization Service"
net stop "VMware DHCP Service"
net stop "VMware NAT Service"
net stop "VMware USB Arbitration Service"
taskkill /F /IM vmware-tray.exe
exit

Now.... the services start and stop just fine but Vmware does not run, with or without "start /wait". I've also tried the %programfiles% variable but it just doesn't work.

Now I changed it to this:

"C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe -x C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx"

Now at least I get an error message:

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Could somone please point me in the right direction?

Hello everyone!

I've recently switched to Win7 Pro on a three year old notebook and I am very pleased. The machine went from "bogged down hard and soon to be replaced" to a performance machine.

In order to save resources when I do not use Vmware Workstation, I have set all its services to manual and wrote a batch file to stert them only when I need to - and stop them thereafter:

@echo off
net start "VMware Authorization Service"
net start "VMware DHCP Service"
net start "VMware NAT Service"
net start "VMware USB Arbitration Service"
start /wait "C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe -x C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx"
net stop "VMware Authorization Service"
net stop "VMware DHCP Service"
net stop "VMware NAT Service"
net stop "VMware USB Arbitration Service"
taskkill /F /IM vmware-tray.exe
exit

Now.... the services start and stop just fine but Vmware does not run, with or without "start /wait". I've also tried the %programfiles% variable but it just doesn't work.

Now I changed it to this:

"C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe -x C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx"

Now at least I get an error message:

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Could somone please point me in the right direction?

996, t I think it should look like this:

"C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe" -x "C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx"

Enjoy, John.

Thank you, John! It works!