sâmbătă, 29 mai 2010

VMware Tweaker: Tweak Hidden VMware Settings

VMware is a popular virtualization software. The free version, VMware Player lets you personalize many important settings during virtual hard drive setup. But there are many settings like VM BIOS tweaks that you can’t find under VMware Player settings.


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VMware Tweaker is a small tweaking tool for VMware. The tool lets you tweak several hidden VMware settings. All you need to do is browse to the VMX file (main configuration file) to start tweaking. Here are some tweaks available in VMware Tweaker:


# BIOS boot delay


# Set custom video memory size


# Change sound configuration



# Change MAC value


# Set clock on boot


# Disable sync time


# Change current UUID


# Disable guest beeps


# Create a backup of original VMX file


# Remove blank spaces in VMX file


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The tool is pretty useful for advanced users who like to fine tune VMware settings. The download size is just 195.6 KB and is available to download from the below mentioned link. You might also like to know how to convert VMDK file to VHD format.


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vineri, 28 mai 2010

Download Windows 7 ISO (Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links)

Below is an updated the compilation of official direct download links for various versions and editions of Windows 7 ISO images in various language combination. Microsoft typically does not provide official downloads for Windows 7 operating system, neither through HTTP nor through P2P file sharing such as BT (BitTorrent). So how’s the official direct download links of Windows 7 come about?



Various web-based online storefronts and retailers (e.g. Digital River) sell Windows 7 licenses, and to fulfill the orders, the online stores host and provide digital downloads of Windows 7 setup installation files in the form of ISO image, which can then be unpacked and extracted, or used to mount on virtual drive and burnt to a DVD media disc to clean install Windows 7 on a blank PC or upgrade a system from existing operating system.


Here’s a list of available direct download links for Windows 7 ISOs. As not all editions of Windows 7 is sold online, and not all language versions is sold online, only a few editions or language versions of Windows 7 ISO images’ download links are available.


Windows 7 Professional x64 (64-bit)


English: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65805/X15-65805.iso

German: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65813/X15-65813.iso


French: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65811/X15-65811.iso

Spanish: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65843/X15-65843.iso


Windows 7 Professional x86 (32-bit)


English: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65804/X15-65804.iso

German: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65812/X15-65812.iso

French: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65810/X15-65810.iso


Spanish: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65842/X15-65842.iso


Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (64-bit)


English: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65733/X15-65733.iso

German: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65741/X15-65741.iso

French: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65738/X15-65739.iso

Spanish: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65771/X15-65771.iso



Windows 7 Home Premium x86 (32-bit)


English: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.iso

German: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65740/X15-65740.iso

French: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65738/X15-65738.iso

Spanish: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65770/X15-65770.iso


Windows 7 Enterprise [English 60 Days Trial] – Source]



32-bit (x86): 7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_enterprise_en-us_EVAL_Eval_Enterprise-GRMCENEVAL_EN_DVD.iso

64-bit (x64): 7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_enterprise_en-us_EVAL_Eval_Enterprise-GRMCENXEVAL_EN_DVD.iso


Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (64-bit)


[Unofficial] English: http://91.121.99.184/paolo/win7-64bit.iso


Windows 7 Ultimate x86 (32-bit)


[Unofficial] English: http://91.121.99.184/paolo/win7.iso



Windows 7 N Version Direct Download Links [Windows 7 N English for Europe - No Windows Media Player (WMP12)]


Windows 7 Home Premium N x86 (32-bit): http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X16-13457/X16-13457.iso

Windows 7 Home Premium N x64 (64-bit): http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X16-13459/X16-13459.iso

Windows 7 Professional N x86 (32-bit): http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X16-13548/X16-13548.iso

Windows 7 Professional N x64 (64-bit): http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X16-13550/X16-13550.iso


Note: Use download manager to ensure proper download as the file size is bigger than 2GB. All ISOs above contains Windows 7 RTM build version 6.1.7600.16385.



Tip 1: To convert an installed Windows 7 to another language, download Windows 7 language packs and install.


Tip 2: To enable selection of Windows 7 edition to install during setup, uses ei.cfg Removal Utility.


Tip 3: Use Windows 7 ISO Image Edition Switcher to change edition of a Windows 7 ISO.


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