FXSAPIDebuglogfile.txt What is it & and why it doesn't get deleted?

Last few nights were my sleepless nights as I couldn't either uninstall vmware player 4.0.2 version or install vmware player 4.0.4 version.  I had to get rid of this FXSAPIDebuglogfile.txt file but I kept getting message saying its been used by another program.

finally, I found the solution :

1. Go to control panel click Programs \ Turn windows features on or off.

2. Scroll down the list and unchecked the box next to Print and Document Services so its not highlighted.

3. Click ok and restart your machine.

That file will go away after the restart. 

But what is that file for? It's a log file that is associated with the fax application that you use. 

Ref: Microsoft Answers Forum

Restarting a suspended Virtual Machine

Today I  tried to start suspended windows server 2008 Virtual Machine from another host machine.
VM didn't want to work;

"The virtual machine you are attempting to restore is using the FFXSR CPU feature, but your host does not support it.  An error occurred while restoring the virtual machine state from file "G:\virtual machines\windows server\windows server 2008 R2 X 64-6db70672.vmss".

Solution: Close Vmware workstation.  Locate the virtual machine's folder.  Delete the .vmss, .lck, and .nvram files.

Ref: Vmware KB.

Virtual machine cannot open .vmdk file

The other day my host machine crashed and when I tried to load Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machine from another computer an error message came up on the screen.
"Cannot open the disk 'G:\VirtualMachines\Windows Server\Windows server 2008 R2 x64.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Failed to lock the file.

Didn't realize it's gonna be so easy to fix.

I just delete the .Lck folder within my Windows Server 2008 virtual machine folder and after this without any problem my VM worked fine.

Program files & Program files (x86) in Windows 7 64 bit

Last week I just noticed my C: drive got 9.3G free out of 97G.  Recently I formatted my machine and installed windows 7 64 bit.  You won't see two program files folders in windows 7 32 bit. Why do we need 2 folders actually in 64 bit?

Program files is for to store 64 bit programs and Program files (x86) is for to store any 32 bit programs which we install.  Program files(x86) is very important that allows 32 bit programs to run on the 64 bit operating system. You can't remove either one of them as they both are essential.  Even you may notice you will have IE and IE 64 bit.  But if you remove one of the IE your IE web browser will not work properly. 

So what's the solution???

Do a Disk Clean-up.  I DID and I was able to get 45G free space back. That's fantastic.

1. Go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools.  Right click on Disk Clean-up and select Run as Administrator.

2. In the Drop Down menu box select the drive you want to clean up and click OK.  The drive will be scanned.

3. In the next window, scroll through the list of files that can be deleted and select any additional files.

4. Select more options tab.  In the System Restore and Shadow Copies section, click the Clean-up button and click OK.

5.  Then select Delete button.  Click OK to confirm the deletion.

This will remove temporary files, backups and all other unwanted files from the system to the latest.

Check your C: drive now, you will be HAPPY.

Error while powering on: The Vmware Authorisation Service is not running

Accidentely I unplugged the Windows Server 2008R2 virtual machine without shutting it down properly. (it was my 7 months old baby actually :). Then I tried to run my virtual machine using the Vmware Player, this error message appeared on the screen.

"Error while powering on: the Vmware Authorisation Service is not running"

First I checked whether that particular service is running, and that looked perfectly alright. Still not convinced with that and then clicked on restart the service option which made my VM to wake up!!!
1. Click Start and then type Run
2. Type services.msc and click ok
3. locate the Vmware Authorisation service from the list.
4. Click start/Restart button to start the service.

Valuable Networking

It’s amazing how my network has been expanded since I arrived in Australia 2 years ago. When I was a first year student at Swinburne University, I was very new to the University as well as to the country. One day we had a seminar conducted by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and we were told about the benefits of joining ACS. After attending their branch forums, workshops, seminars and social events, I realized the advantages of being a member. This has enabled me to meet many people from the IT industry. By registering as a member we will have the opportunity to receive interesting and resourceful magazines such as Information Age and PC Authority.


ACS conducts career workshops, and in one of the workshop the presenter mentioned the Melbourne IT Mentoring Program (MITM). This program gives valuable advantages, because here we can select a role we prefer and we can work on projects. We get the chance to meet many people with different skill sets. This helps us to exchange ideas and thoughts with other learners. I believe that I have learned a lot about the skills needed to be a business analyst from MITM.

Go Girl Go for IT

Go Girl Go for IT is an awareness program for high school girls sponsored by VicICT, Telstra, ACS, ANZ, Coles, KPMG, accenture, Deakin, Deloitte, AIIA, Oracle, hp and IBM. Event was held on the 28^th and 29^th of October at Deakin University Burwood campus. The main targeted schools were from Bendigo, Geelong and Ballaret. I got the chance to volunteer on the 2^nd day. Nearly eight to ten presentations were arranged for each day. The main presenters were from Google, Freelance, Artabase, Vic Police, Iron monkey, Microsoft, IBM and Infosys.

I would like to thank ACS for giving me the opportunity to volunteer this event because I got the chance to meet people from industry, and gathered many good ideas from them. Especially the book I received “Tech girls are chic” is an excellent encouragement which covers 16 success stories of 16 girls where 16 ways to have fun with IT.