VMware is a great program, but it is a huge hog of memory especially when you don’t need it or when you’re trying to run memory intensive programs.

To resolve this problem, I created some batch files with the services and created shortcuts to them to my quick launch bar.

Before you do this, you should set the startup type below to manual.

NOTE: The service name corresponds not to the “display name”, but to “service name”. Also the “service name” may be different for your version. Some sites online have this same thing but using the “display name”. This may work sometimes, but the “service name” will always work.”

To Start VMware:

NET START vmount2
NET START VMnetDHCP
NET START “VMware NAT Service”
NET START VMAuthdService
NET START vmserverdWin32
“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server\vmware.exe

To Shutdown VMware:

NET STOP vmount2
NET STOP VMnetDHCP
NET STOP “VMware NAT Service”
NET STOP VMAuthdService
NET STOP vmserverdWin32

LAST NOTE:

Notice the quotation marks. If a service name has spaces, you need to use quotation marks!

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