Veeam - Hyper-V and ESXI Backup

"Veeam Backup & Replication is built specifically for your virtual environment. It’s agentless to provide fast backup and recovery of virtual machines (VMs), regardless of virtual platform, OS, or type of storage. With a single license and from a unified console, you can protect your entire virtual infrastructure with industry-leading features such as Instant VM Recovery, granular file and application recovery, near-continuous data protection (near-CDP) and much more.
Whether you use VMware, Hyper-V or a combination of both—we have you covered with support for the latest hypervisor releases: VMware vSphere 5.1 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V."

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VMWARE ESXi Tools ERROR "[ warning] [vmusr:vmusr] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send"

After installing ESXI tools you may receive this error:

[ warning] [vmusr:vmusr] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send.

It seems an upgrade problem and just recreate/reconfigure tools.conf:

"You can create it like this:

[logging]
log = true
# Enable tools service logging to vmware.log
vmsvc.level = debug
vmsvc.handler = vmx
# Enable new "vmusr" service logging to vmware.log
vmusr.level = error
vmusr.handler = vmx
# Enable "Volume Shadow Copy" service logging to vmware.log
vmvss.level = debug
vmvss.handler = vmx

Save it as tools.conf in the appropriate folder for the guest OS.
Windows XP and Windows Server 2000/2003
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Tools\tools.conf
Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Tools\tools.conf"

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Source: VMWare Knowledge Base

ComboFix Removes Malware,Spyware…

"Combofix is a freeware (a legitimate spyware remover created by sUBs), Combofix was designed to scan a computer for known malware, spyware (SurfSideKick, QooLogic, and Look2Me as well as any other combination of the mentioned spyware applications) and remove them,ComboFix allows the manual removal of spyware infections , It ‘s a specialized effective cleaning tool, which is useful compared to other malware and spyware removers.After Combofix finished,a report will be created. You can use this report to search and remove infections which are not automatically removed."

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Attach VHD (Windows 7 and Windows 8)

"New features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 allow Windows Admins to create, mount, and attach virtual hard disks (VHD). This feature will get a lot of use from Windows admins and it saves us from having to use 3rd party tools to do this. In fact, Microsoft is even offering test drives of their popular enterprise applications (such as Window 7 and Exchange 2010)."

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How to Reinstall Windows Without Having to Reactivate

"Every time you format and reinstall your PC, you have to activate Windows again, which can sometimes be a pain once you’ve done it too many times. Here’s how to backup and then restore the activation status."

"Advanced Token Manager easily allows you to back up all the information that Windows uses to check the validity of you copy of Windows. Collectively called a Token, this information can be backed up to an external storage medium. Once you have formatted you can import the Token and your Windows will be genuine again."

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BootMed - Recover Windows

" The Free Version BootMed will teach you how to repair Windows or recover your data. This live CD boots up to online text based instructions and screen shots guiding you through DIY recovery."

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EASEUS Data Recovery - Repair RAW disk and Recover files

"There are many computer users who complain about disk errors which cause they could not access the disk, and the most common situation is that Windows pop-up indicates "The drive in disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" When they check the properties of the disk, they find the file system of the disk is RAW, both Used space and Free space are 0 byte; even they fail to check the disk and repair the RAW disk by using "Error-checking" in Tools or using chkdsk command. What is wrong with this disk?"

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