Category: Tools, tips and tricks

When using VMware you may encounter a “Module Disk Power on Failed” error while starting up a VM which was not properly shut down. It appears accompanied by “The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file” and followed by “Failed to start the virtual machine”. It usually…

Install open-vm-tools Distros which use rpm, yum, dnf: Distros which use apt, apt-get: apt-get install -y open-vm-tools Mounting the host shares Temporarily. Execute the following command. This will mount the shared folders for the current Session. It will have to be done again the next time you start the VM. Make it persistent. Putting the…

Those images one see on the login page of Windows are (at least temporarily) stored in the local machine. The containing folder can be found under: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets where USERNAME is the logged-in user. The folder may be hidden, so one should have the show hidden folders option active to see it. The images are in…