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Thank you, John! It works!

Hello everyone! I've recently switched to Win7 Pro on a three year old notebook and I am very pleased. The machine went from "bogged down hard and soon to be replaced" to a performance machine. In order to save resources when I do not use Vmware Workstation, I have set all its services to manual and wrote a batch file to stert them only when I need to - and stop them thereafter: @echo off net start "VMware Authorization Service" net start "VMware DHCP Service" net start "VMware NAT Service" net start "VMware USB Arbitration Service" start /wait "C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe -x C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx" net stop "VMware Authorization Service" net stop "VMware DHCP Service" net stop "VMware NAT Service" net stop "VMware USB Arbitration Service" taskkill /F /IM vmware-tray.exe exit Now.... the services start and stop just fine but Vmware does not run, with or without "start /wait". I've also tried the %programfiles% variable but it just doesn't work. Now I changed it to this: "C:\program files\VMware\VMware Workstation\VMware.exe -x C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx" Now at least I get an error message: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Could somone please point me in the right direction?