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BACKGROUND:

A few months ago I installed Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro (13″ Unibody running Snow Leopard).  Yesterday I decided to try and boot into my Win7 Boot Camp partition via VMWare Fusion v2.03.  Doing this installed VMWare tools to Windows 7.

PROBLEM:

Today, when I booted directly into my Windows 7 partition (not via VMWare), I noticed that I couldn’t print anything anymore.

I checked the Event Viewer and found the following error in the System log:

The Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly.

In the Application section of the Event Viewer, I found the following:

Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bd3d1Faulting module name: TPVMMon.dll, version: 2.0.51.5, time stamp: 0x48359080Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x000000000000846eFaulting process id: 0x1300Faulting application start time: 0x01caa2aa2c4394d8Faulting application path: C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exeFaulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\TPVMMon.dllReport Id: 7188e318-0e9d-11df-9123-895fd79b6e49

The only thing I could attribute the Print Spooler issue to was VMWare Fusion.

I tried uninstalling the VMWare Tools program listed in the Control Panel > Uninstall Program section, but it would not remove.  No errors were displayed, but the program wouldn’t remove from the Programs list.

SOLUTION:

I deleted the following folder (and all related subkeys) from the Registry (via Start > Run > regedit):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Monitors\ThinPrint Print Port Monitor for VMWare]

Here goes my first video tutorial…

In this example, I will show you how to speed up or slow down an MP3 track using Apple’s Garageband software.

1. Create a new “Loops” track
2. Drag the MP3 file into the track pane
3. Press Control + Alt (Option) + G
   1. Once you do this, the track color will change from orange to purple.
4. Click on the track
5. Click the Track Editor button (scissors icon)
6. Check the Follow Tempo & Pitch checkbox
7. Select the Project LCD mode (this is the only mode with a Tempo option)
8. Change the tempo from 120 (default)
   1. To make the song faster, raise the tempo
   2. To make the song slower, lower the tempo

That’s all there is to it!