Desktop Support, Software Support and Server Administration

Mark O'Brien

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That is a very old version of VMware Workstation (born before Windows 10 came out). &nbsp;Try a newer version of VMware and of course, install / upgrade the tools when you upgraded VMware. <br />
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If you upgraded your Windows 7 machine to Windows 10, that may have brought along legacy problems as well. Windows 7 is no longer a good candidate to upgrade - too old.
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That is a very old version of VMware Workstation (born before Windows 10 came out).  Try a newer version of VMware and of course, install / upgrade the tools when you upgraded VMware.

If you upgraded your Windows 7 machine to Windows 10, that may have brought along legacy problems as well. Windows 7 is no longer a good candidate to upgrade - too old.

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Afthab T, I fiddled around with settings on that tab. &nbsp;It seems to be working now. &nbsp;Thank you<br />
mark<br />
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Andrew, the tools are installed, yes
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Afthab T, I fiddled around with settings on that tab.  It seems to be working now.  Thank you
mark

Andrew, the tools are installed, yes

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Thank you again techs! &nbsp;I appreciate you!
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Thank you again techs!  I appreciate you!

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Cant click in Vmware workstation 11 on Windows 10. &nbsp;This vm was working on Win 7, and I had to upgrade to 10. &nbsp;I have it running in compat mode for 7. &nbsp;Any assistance is appreciated.<br />
Thank you,<br />
Mark
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Cant click in Vmware workstation 11 on Windows 10.  This vm was working on Win 7, and I had to upgrade to 10.  I have it running in compat mode for 7.  Any assistance is appreciated.
Thank you,
Mark

Can't click mouse in vmware 11

Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system featuring the "universal application architecture" (UAP); apps can be designed to run across multiple devices with nearly identical code, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, Xbox One, Surface Hub and HoloLens. Windows 10 also includes a virtual desktop system, a window and desktop management feature called Task View, the Microsoft Edge web browser, support for fingerprint and face recognition login, voice-based search (Cortana), new security features for enterprise environments, and DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0 to improve the operating system's graphics capabilities for games.

Windows 10

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.