I’m making this post in the hope to reduce the doubts or understand the way how VMware Player works as a lot of people have their first hand experience trying out the new Google Chrome OS available for download as a virtual machine image.
This post is essential for undertanding how to create a Virutal Machine in VMware Player while the my next post will deal on how to run the Chrome Virtual Image using VMware Player 3.0 in particular.
So just follow the step by step process and you’ll end up with your virtual machine up and running! I’ve considered that you’ve already Downloaded the VMware Player and installed it on your system. If you’ve not done it yet, download WMware now (Needs registration but don’t worry it’s free!!)
Step 1:
Open VMware and the first “Welcome to VMware Player” window will pop up. Since this post is about “Creating a Virtual Machine”, let’s not talk about the other options on the list.
Directly click on the “Create a New Virtual Machine” on the top, highlighted with yellow and red arrow on the image.
VMware
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Google Chrome
The Adobe Flash player plugin is widely used all over the Internet, so it’s almost crucial that you install the Google Chrome Flash plugin if you wish to maximize your browser experience. If you’ve been prompted to install the Flash plugin but nothing happens, then you’ll need to manually install it yourself by downloading the Flash plugin from Adobe and playing a few tricks to install it into Google Chrome. No need to fear however because the installation procedure is pretty straightforward and you’ll have a Chrome Flash plugin enabled browser in no time.
- Download the Flash player xpi for Windows.
- Add a .zip extension to the file. It should now be: flashplayer-win.xpi.zip
Extract the contents and copy two files “flashplayer.xpt” and “NPSWF32.dll” (indicated in the screenshot below) over to C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins in XP orC:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins in Vista (thank you Derek), making sure to change ‘user’ to your Windows login name. You can avoid having to unhide hidden files in Windows Explorer simply by copying and pasting the directory path provided above into the path bar.
Restart Google Chrome, then see if you can watch a YouTube video to see if it worked. Or just come back to this page.
Yesterday one of my junior was trying to print a few stuffs he bought in his pen drive using my PC. He said he did scanned for viruses (am using AVG) but the scan showed no detection; however i got this protectfile.vbs virus on every drive of my PC. The most annoying thing it did was that, your CD or DVD drive will be ejected by itself. Whenever you try to open any of your drive by double clicking on it, a new window will be opened instead of the same window. This is quite an annoying thing (if you are using linux with default settings, you perhaps know about this!!).
The protectfile.vbs virus makes hidden, read-only multiple copies of itself in all the drives which are difficult to be detected. It can’t be deleted or renamed without disabling its “read-only” property. And lastly when we try to delete any one of the multiple copies, it uses an autorun.inf (executed automatically by windows) file to recreate itself from its copies in other drives.
So i tried googling for its remedy. I did found out a lot of ways to remove the virus but none was quite effective. I looked for the methods at
thinkingpal,
yahoo answers and the
potpourri4u blog. By “effective”, i meant, u don’t want to download stuffs to remove that file but you do want to remove it… better it be that u be able to remove it with minimum efforts!! So, here’s the best method i can provide you to remove the virus.
All the steps are similar to wat’s available, but the important thing is that, many bloggers failed to mention step 5 (coz they perhaps never tried, but just COPY-PASTED these steps) which is a MUST:
1) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del (Task Manager)
2) In the Processes tab , Kill the processes : explorer and wscript.exe (if available)
3) Go to File> new task
4) Go to command Prompt (Enter cmd in Run)
Go to the drive c:\
Type del /f/q/a protectfile.vbs
and del /f/q/a autorun.inf
Go to c:\windows\system32
and enter del /f/q/a secureguard.vbs
5) Now delete protectfile.vbs and autorun.inf by going manually to the root of each drive (use windows explorer tree form, do not double click on the drive icons)
If you don’t see the file, go to folder options, select the view tab, uncheck the hide protected operating system files button then check the show hidden file button. Click apply and then OK.
6) Goto regedit (enter regedit in Run) and search for protectfile.vbs and delete all entries with this name.
7) Now search for the secureguard.vbs and modify it as in the path del only “c:\windows\system32\secureguard.vbs” and let the other part of the path be as it is.
Restart your system
A more simpler option maybe found at
dirtycraft blog.
I hope that does it… and i’m sure, no pop ups will be shown at each restart of your PC!!
