My PC with StableBit Scanner installed does not seem to play nice with either VMWare Player 6 or Oracle VirtualBox.
I'm not talking about running Scanner inside a virtual machine OS but have Scanner installed on a PC that also has VMWare Player 6 installed..
A few days ago I decided to install VMWare Player 6 on my Windows 7 x64 PC because I need to run Windows XP for testing purpose.
After VMWare Player 6 is installed and I rebooted my PC.
Upon log in to my desktop, I noticed several problems:
1) Windows Task Manager and Notepad both have classic looking border even though my Windows 7 has Aero effect enabled. All other programs still show the normal Aero borders.
2) I tried right-click context menu option to run CMD "As Administrator" but nothing happened. Afterward, the Start Menu does not respond to any left click either and the whole desktop feels somewhat sluggish.
3) When I launch Scanner dashboard, an error message indicating that it was unable to connect to the Scanner service.
4) I went into Computer Management and attempt to restart StableBit scanner service manually but its status stays at "Starting..." instead of "Started..." forever.
5) When I decided to "Restart" my Windows 7, it took forever to logoff and and shutdown so I had to press on the reset button on my PC.
At this point I was thinking VMWare must have done something to WMWare Player 6 since I did not have such problem in VMWare Player 5 but I have never have Scanner and VMWare Player 5 installed on the same PC so I can not be certain.
Luckily for me, I made a system image backup of my C drive before attempted to install VMWare Player 6.
So I restored my system drive using Acronis True Image recue CD and restored my C drive to before VMWare Player was installed and this time I installed the latest version of VirtualBox to see if it has the same problem.
Well, after Virtual Box is installed and my Windows 7 PC is rebooted, upon login to the desktop I experienced all the SAME PROBLEMS again.
Once again, Scanner service seem to be the problem.
To be certain that StableBit Scanner is causing the problem, I decided to restore my system drive again and this time I uninstalled both DrivePool and Scanner first.
Then I proceed to install VMWare Player 6 on my PC which no longer have DrivePool and Scanner running.
After the VMWare Player 6 is installed and my PC rebooted, I did NOT encounter any problem after I login to my desktop.
So the next thing is to install StableBit Scanner and see if I will have those problems again.
And immediately after the I installed Scanner (StableBit.Scanner_2.4.0.2928_Release.exe) but before I reboot my PC, Stable Scanner dashboard is launched automatically and all the problem I described is back!!!
(One good news from all these testing I did is that StableBit DrivePool appeared to be okay and shows no compatibility issue with VMWare Player or VirtualBox installed.)
Can anyone check if StableBit Scanner has any compatibility issues when VMWare Player 6?
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My PC with StableBit Scanner installed does not seem to play nice with either VMWare Player 6 or Oracle VirtualBox.
I'm not talking about running Scanner inside a virtual machine OS but have Scanner installed on a PC that also has VMWare Player 6 installed..
A few days ago I decided to install VMWare Player 6 on my Windows 7 x64 PC because I need to run Windows XP for testing purpose.
After VMWare Player 6 is installed and I rebooted my PC.
Upon log in to my desktop, I noticed several problems:
1) Windows Task Manager and Notepad both have classic looking border even though my Windows 7 has Aero effect enabled. All other programs still show the normal Aero borders.
2) I tried right-click context menu option to run CMD "As Administrator" but nothing happened. Afterward, the Start Menu does not respond to any left click either and the whole desktop feels somewhat sluggish.
3) When I launch Scanner dashboard, an error message indicating that it was unable to connect to the Scanner service.
4) I went into Computer Management and attempt to restart StableBit scanner service manually but its status stays at "Starting..." instead of "Started..." forever.
5) When I decided to "Restart" my Windows 7, it took forever to logoff and and shutdown so I had to press on the reset button on my PC.
At this point I was thinking VMWare must have done something to WMWare Player 6 since I did not have such problem in VMWare Player 5 but I have never have Scanner and VMWare Player 5 installed on the same PC so I can not be certain.
Luckily for me, I made a system image backup of my C drive before attempted to install VMWare Player 6.
So I restored my system drive using Acronis True Image recue CD and restored my C drive to before VMWare Player was installed and this time I installed the latest version of VirtualBox to see if it has the same problem.
Well, after Virtual Box is installed and my Windows 7 PC is rebooted, upon login to the desktop I experienced all the SAME PROBLEMS again.
Once again, Scanner service seem to be the problem.
To be certain that StableBit Scanner is causing the problem, I decided to restore my system drive again and this time I uninstalled both DrivePool and Scanner first.
Then I proceed to install VMWare Player 6 on my PC which no longer have DrivePool and Scanner running.
After the VMWare Player 6 is installed and my PC rebooted, I did NOT encounter any problem after I login to my desktop.
So the next thing is to install StableBit Scanner and see if I will have those problems again.
And immediately after the I installed Scanner (StableBit.Scanner_2.4.0.2928_Release.exe) but before I reboot my PC, Stable Scanner dashboard is launched automatically and all the problem I described is back!!!
(One good news from all these testing I did is that StableBit DrivePool appeared to be okay and shows no compatibility issue with VMWare Player or VirtualBox installed.)
Can anyone check if StableBit Scanner has any compatibility issues when VMWare Player 6?
Thank you.
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