[HD-Goeby]

Here it is. Cheers.

Great Thanks,now it works for me......

[tinkerman]

I have setup a VM with Windows 7 64- bit and gave 4 cores and 4 GB RAM. Used space is about 68 GB.

My VM is 40.4GB. You can ‘reclaim’ a large portion of your host system's disk space by using a couple of methods.
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/sho...ht=sdelete

[ Quick Guide ]
1. First refer to the link above for general background info, and download SDelete.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysin...97443.aspx

2. In the VM (in operation), delete any and all non-essential files, such as installation files and files that can be deleted via ‘Disk Cleanup’ under the VM’s C: drive Properties.
3. Defragment the VM’s C: drive.

4. In Windows ‘Host OS’(NOT the VM’s ‘Guest OS’) > Control Panel > User Accounts:
a. Make sure the account is set to an Administrator account.
b. Change User Account Control settings(in Windows 7) > lower the setting fully down to 'Never notify', and REBOOT. This is necessary for the next step to work.

5. ‘Mount’ the Rheingold VM's XXXX.vmdk onto the Windows ‘Host OS’. If you have VMware Workstation installed, you can just right click the XXXX.vmdk file and in the drop down menu select 'Map Virtual Disk'. (If you are not using VMware Workstation, then you can use a utility such as ‘Disk Mount’ or similar utility)

6. In the ‘Map Virtual Disk’ pop up, DESELECT(UNCHECK) 'Open file in read-only mode (recommended)'. Click OK. Shortly afterward you will be able to see the virtual disk mounted onto the host system through the explorer window as drive ‘Z:’ or whichever drive letter was selected in the mounting process. With the vmdk mounted in the host OS as a drive, now we can proceed to use SDelete to ‘zero’(initialize) the dead disk space in the XXXXX.vmdk to reclaim that space.

[SDelete – ‘Zero’(Initialize/Reclaim) Free Disk Space]
7. Open the command window - Start > type "cmd" in the search window

8. In the command window, type the directory in which SDelete is located followed by the necessary command(“sdelete.exe -z:-c Z:”) such as:
C:\Users\(My Windows Account Name)\Downloads\SDelete(folder)\sdelete.exe -z:-c Z:

If you've mounted the vmdk as disk 'Y:' for example, then the last portion of the command line should reflect such drive letter designation.

SDelete will proceed to ‘zapp’ any free space on the XXXXX.vmdk that has not yet been ‘zeroed’(initialized). A XX%(percentage) completed indicator will show in the command window during the process, followed by a comment that the drive has been ‘zapped’ when completed.


9. Once the SDelete process is completed, in Explorer, right click the XXXX.vmdk(drive Z: for example), and in the drop down menu click ‘Disconnect Virtual Disk’.

[VMware Workstation Compact Feature – Reduce(Compact) VM Size]
10. Open the VM, but do NOT Power ON or Start Up Guest yet.
11. In the left side column under ‘Devices’, click ‘Hard Disk’.
12. In the pop up ‘Virtual Machine Settings’ under the ‘Hardware’ tab, click ‘Hard Disk’.
13. On the right side under ‘Disk information’, click ‘Utilities’ > ‘Compact’. This will now ‘compact’ the data within the XXXXX.vmdk, taking into account the ‘zeroed’(initialized) space, and reduce the disk space taken up by the VM on the ‘Host OS’ as well as reduce the size of the VM itself. This will significantly reduce the size of the VM.

Cheers.

[bmwbmw]

If somebody can share the procedure to make it works Rheingold like old ISTA 2X to be have inside diagnosys history of cars or old operations.

Thanks in adnvance!

[wdlbrmph]

As most of you may know Rheingold native resolution is 1024x768 which makes it appear small on some laptops. I've modified the ISTAGUI.exe for V3.41 to change the resolutions. Attached are ISTAGUI files for:

1280x768
1280x800
1366x768

Overwrite the existing file (make a backup first).

tip: Also for Rheingold to appear correctly its best to auto-hide the taskbar (right click on the taskbar, go to properties and then select auto-hide. Do this before running Rheingold.

Would you be so kind to make a 1024x600 version of that file? I tried to run it on my Netbook, but I cannot see all its windows it as it is.

[sev45]

Would you be so kind to make a 1024x600 version of that file? I tried to run it on my Netbook, but I cannot see all its windows it as it is.

The actual size of the vertical content in the program window 768, so if you do a size smaller than this value the contents of the window will not be displayed at the bottom.

[wdlbrmph]

They're not displayed right now, either. Problem is it's not even using the 600 pixels in height right now.

[beemerboy88]

Would you be so kind to make a 1024x600 version of that file? I tried to run it on my Netbook, but I cannot see all its windows it as it is.

Not possible. 1024x768 is the smallest native resolution that will work.

The only other option available is to install it in a virtualbox vm with the vm screen resolution at 1024x768. Then use virtualbox scale mode to auto adjust it to your 1024x600 resolution. I've tried it and it works ok. Virtualbox is free and works just the same as VMware.

[wdlbrmph]

Not possible. 1024x768 is the smallest native resolution that will work.

The only other option available is to install it in a virtualbox vm with the vm screen resolution at 1024x768. Then use virtualbox scale mode to auto adjust it to your 1024x600 resolution. I've tried it and it works ok. Virtualbox is free and works just the same as VMware.

I got it working by downscaling 1024x768 to 1024x600. Looks pretty crappy, but works.

[fredy3330]

Here's 1280x720. Untested (768 may be the minimum) so may appear cropped.

I TRIED BUT IT APPEARS SAME AS 1280X768. THE TOP AND BOTTOM BUTTONS ARE HALF HIDDEN. THANKS ANYWAY

[Paul]

wdlbrmph
can you share display setting 1024x600