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Why does VMWare Player always appear "always on top" of other windows?

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I use VMWare-Player at work. The virtualization is very useful, but I have one major pet peeve with VMWare. My workstation has two monitors. I usually have VMWare running full-screen on one monitor. Oftentimes, when I click on something on my real (not VMWare) machine (such as to open a new program…

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Fix for: Why does VMWare Player always appear "always on top" of other windows?

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That's the behavior of full-screen apps, unfortunately. It's not VMWare specific. Apps like to open on the primary monitor, which is also where full-screen apps like to be full screened. Short of running VMWare Player in windowed mode, you are proba…

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