Hello.
I've been working with VMware Fusion 5.0.3 just fine.
I had a problem on Finder with the "Open With" contextual menu and fixed it, so I had to populate again the list of Apps in that menu. Because of this, I moved some setting from the Virtual Machine causing other problems, as explained below:
From the Virtual Machine Library \ Settings \ Default Applications, I checked and un-checked several times:
"Open your Mac files and web links using Windows applications"
"Run Windows applications from your Mac's Applications folder"
"Restore Applications"
By now, I have the next configuration:
"Open your Mac files and web links using Windows applications" - Checked
"Open your Windows files and web links using Mac applications" - Checked
"Run Windows applications from your Mac's Applications folder" - Unchecked
The consequence of moving these configuration, is that Launchpad and Spotlight are now displaying the list of programs I have in Virtual Machine, and so far by searching on the web, there is no easy way to set back as a "fresh install" of the Virtual Machine and how it integrates with OS X.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
run the following commands one by on in terminal
have a look at this article
I dont think there are no alternate ways than to manually moving them to trash as mention in article.
Hi avanish321.
Thanks for the follow up, but Windows Programs are not visible in the Applications folder in Finder, as I have unchecked "Run Windows Applications from your Mac's Applications foler".
Under these settings, Windows Programs are only visible in Launchpad and Spotlight, the place where I want to remove them.
Thanks
run the following commands one by on in terminal
Thanks, this solved the problem.
To remove Windows programs from Spotlight, just added the Virtual Machines folder to System Preferences \ Spotlight \ Privacy.
Thanks again.
If you are using Sierra, please use these commands. The LaunchPad data is moved into new location.
sqlite3 $(sudo find /private/var/folders -name com.apple.dock.launchpad)/db/db "DELETE FROM apps WHERE title='APPNAME';" && killall Dock
Also you can see the article below.