VMware Player – Disabling ‘To Release Input, Press Ctrl+Alt’ Tooltip

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[Same as Hide annoying VMware hint "To release input, press Ctrl+Alt" but for VMware Player, because that answer was for VMware Workstation]

When starting the VMWare Player, at the top it always displays this tooltip:

To release input, press Ctrl+Alt

This tooltip obscures a part of the VM (often the menu of a program I'm using) and it's annoying as hell.

Need to disable it, but the solution for VMware Workstation doesn't work for VMware Player. I.e., I didn't find the "Grab keyboard and mouse input on mouse click" Preferences in VMware Player.

Best Answer

I write down my Answer here, just because i cannot comment under Hide annoying VMware hint “To release input, press Ctrl+Alt”

My Solution is same as the one Maxime Poulin mentioned in the link above. But we need to modify other file: vmclientcore.dll within the VMPlayer Version 7.1.0 (Windows X64)

  1. backup your old vmclientcore.dll
  2. open the vmclientcore.dll with whatever a hex-editor

  3. replace @&!*@*@(msg.vmui.fullScreen.ungrab.tooltip)To release input, press %s with dots (00 or 2E). Edit: don't replace with 2E, it will cause an error

  4. in the same file you could find other tooltips in the same format begin with @&!*@*@(msg.

  5. Save the file and start VMPlayer again. This should work.

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