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Windows 7 Annoyances

In my experience upgrading to Windows 7, there are naturally some bumps in the road.  I have to say, it has been remarkably smooth and I am glad I skipped the entire Vista debacle (I replace Vista Basic with XP on my laptop when I got it years ago).

Here are a few things I ran into and what I had to do:

VMware VSphere

VMware VSphere will install, but it complains when trying to connect to the ESX server.  Unfortunately I didn’t record the error message (actually you get two separate ones), but anybody will experience it when using VSphere.  Fortunately, there is a solution:

http://www.techhead.co.uk/running-vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-7

The only difficulty was editing the VpxClient.exe.config file.  For some reason, even though I had administrative access as well as file ownership, I couldn’t save my changes.  My IT administrator was able to save the changes for me, however.