How to change or disable hotkey for VMware Player?
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I'm running VMware for some older design apps that can run only on Windows XP. One of those apps uses Ctrl+Alt and Ctrl+Alt+Shift shortcuts to perform various tasks. The issue is that VMware player uses Ctrl+Alt as a hotkey to grant control back to the host OS. Is there a way to disable this or cha…
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I was having the same problem, and a little research led me to the “Modifying the hot key setting in VMware Server (1008036)” article on the VMware Knowledge Base site (archived here). It shows how to modify the file to make the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+Shif…
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