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VMWare – Freeze time.

It's sometimes useful to be able to freeze time in your VM's (trialware). This is how you do it:

• Install your flavour of windows in your vmware product.
• Install VMware tools
• Disable Windows Time Sync
• Power off the Virtual Machine
• Navigate to the folder where the Virtual Machine is stored.
• Open the .vmx file in notepad
• Add the following lines to the end of the file.

rtc.startTime = "1230800400"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"


• Power on the VM
• Install your trial software
• Power off the VM
• Edit the .vmx file
• Change the following lines:

from:
rtc.startTime = "1230800400"
to:
rtc.startTime = "1230886800"