[beemerboy88]

EDIT: Well, I am pretty damn embarrassed. You could not have made it more clear where to put the files, and you guessed correctly this was the problem, but it still took me 2 days to find my error. When I opened the Vm drive, I saw "app" in the main directory and put the files over those, rather than looking one more level deel into app/wsm. With that corrected, everything works perfectly!!!!

Of course, it did cause me to go out and buy 8GB of RAM for my laptop so that I can run these in VM without making my system come to a slow crawl as it pages memory....

Now it works perfectly!!! I just tried out both Diagnostics and Programing, and both worked well. VERY slow, though. Diagnostics takes about 5-10x longer than Rheingold. But at least this does programming, which is what Rheingold does not do.

Glad you got it working. ISTA vms are generally slow so it always best to use snapshots and have your computer set to high performance mode with all other programs closed.

Also I noticed in the rheingold launcher thread you said you were using windows 7 32bit. Are you using the 32bit system also for ista? I'm only asking because windows 32bit systems can only utilize 3.5GB ram. So even if you have 8GB ram sticks installed the system will only use 3.5GB of it. To use all of the ram you need windows 64bit installed.