How to disable the hot key for resetting a VMware Workstation virtual machine

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How do you disable the hot key Ctrl+R, which resets the VMware Workstation virtual machine?

I'm using SQL Server Management Studio and I'm going for its Ctrl+R hot key, but occasionally I'm instead triggering the Workstation one, which is a wee bit annoying.

This is for the VMware Workstation product, rather than the VMware Player, so I don't think it's a duplicate of this other question.

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If you are using Windows XP then go to the following path

C:\Document and Settings\your username\Application Data\VMware\preferences.ini

And then add the line and save it.

hint.vmui.reset = "true"

Now open VMware Console back up and go to Help>Hints>Show Enabled Hints.

If you are using the Windows 7 then I think this file must be in

C:\Users\username\AppData\VMware\prefrences.ini

And do the same for this too.. Hope this will help.

Information drawn form this source.

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I use VMWare Workstation. To address your concerns:

I find that the console is more responsive than the VMWare Server console, so that's a plus. I will switch between remote desktop and direct console and don't notice much of a difference in responsiveness.
Sound performance is great. I've never had disconnects like you describe.
I understand VMWare Workstation 7 has multi-monitor support, though I have no experience with it.
VMWare Workstation does group all of the machines together in one Window, so they have to be managed as tabs and not as separate windows.

VMWare Workstation does have some additional drawbacks over VMWare Server.

In particular, there's no automatic suspend support. If you accidentally log off or shutdown the host computer, all of you guests will be instantly powered off. They claim there's no reliable way to shut them down without running them as a service, and they can't run them as a service for security reasons. In other words, "it's complicated".
There's no good remote administration support. You can execute command-line scripts, or you can remote desktop into the host, or you can use VNC (if you've enabled it for a given machine), but there's no web interface to administer workstation.

Some of the reasons I run Workstation over Server.

Some of you reasons mentioned.
Better hardware support.
I feel better supporting the project financially, as it's the best product out there and the price is reasonable.
Great snapshot support. Multiple live snapshots, live VM cloning, shared disk space.
It doesn't run that dreadful Tomcat stuff with all of the bugs that come with trying to get it to work well under Windows.
I feel like VMWare Workstation makes much better use of my resources.

Other reasons for keeping VMWare over other VM products.

Memory over-allocation. You can run a 2GB virtual machine on a host with 2GB of memory. I don't recommend it in general, but in a pinch, it's a nice feature.
Great hardware support - connect high-speed USB devices and many other things. I've always found VMWare ahead of the curve with machine virtualization technology. I've rarely seen a feature of another product that VMWare didn't already do well.

VMware Workstation Player – How to Disable Mouse Integration

VMware Workstation Pro has checkboxes in its Preferences dialog to disable soft (motion) grab and ungrab, but VMware Workstation Player does not have any graphical UI to configure this. You can, however, manually edit your preferences file:

Close all running instances of VMware Workstation Player and VMware Workstation Pro.
Open the preferences file in a text editor. (On Windows, this file is located at %APPDATA%\VMware\preferences.ini; on Linux, this file is ~/.vmware/preferences.)
Add the following lines:
```
pref.motionGrab = "FALSE"
pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE"
```
(If pref.motionGrab and pref.motionUngrab lines already exist in the preferences file, change their values.) You now will need to click in the guest window (or press Ctrl+G) to grab and will need to press Ctrl+Alt to ungrab.

This will affect all VMs. To disable automatic mouse ungrab per VM edit the vmx file (with the VM turned off) and add a line:

mks.gamingMouse.policy = "gaming"

See https://communities.vmware.com/thread/398026 for other setting options.

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