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Workstation 7 - Pin to Taskbar... odd behaviour posted: Nov 6, 2009 12:49 PM

Click to view rhazell's profile Novice 3 posts since
Nov 6, 2009

I just installed Workstation 7 (upgraded from 6)... on Windows 7.

When I "Pin to Taskbar" the WS7 application something weird happens... When I start the WS7 application it creates an additional icon on the taskbar that appears to represent the running instance of the app. That is, after clicking the icon on the taskbar to start, when the application starts an additional icon appears.

Is this a known issue? If not, how do I go about "offically" reporting this issue?

There are also several over oddities of how the application interacts with the taskbar icon - more on this later :)

Thanks in advance.


Re: Workstation 7 - Pin to Taskbar... odd behaviour

1. Nov 6, 2009 3:48 PM in response to: rhazell
Click to view mdunn-vmware's profile Hot Shot 92 posts since
Dec 13, 2007
Are you trying to pin it by right-clicking a shortcut to vmware.exe? If so, this is a known bug in 7.0. I've filed a bug about it internally so it'll be fixed in a future update. The workaround for now is to run WS, then pin it by right-clicking the taskbar button.

Re: Workstation 7 - Pin to Taskbar... odd behaviour

3. Nov 9, 2009 12:20 PM in response to: rhazell
Click to view mdunn-vmware's profile Hot Shot 92 posts since
Dec 13, 2007
You can do that, you just need to modify the shortcut that's created when you pin the app. Right-click the taskbar button to get the jump list, then right-click the "VMware Workstation" item in the jump list, then click Properties.

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