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jaimentu
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Remove Windows Programs from LaunchPad and Spotlight

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!

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avanish321
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run the following commands one by on in terminal

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/
sqlite3 *.db 'delete from apps where bundleid like "com.vmware.proxyApp.%";'
killall Dock
Cheers! Avanish

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avanish321
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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.

Cheers! Avanish
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jaimentu
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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

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avanish321
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run the following commands one by on in terminal

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/
sqlite3 *.db 'delete from apps where bundleid like "com.vmware.proxyApp.%";'
killall Dock
Cheers! Avanish
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jaimentu
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Thanks, this solved the problem.

To remove Windows programs from Spotlight, just added the Virtual Machines folder to System Preferences \ Spotlight \ Privacy.

Thanks again.

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beyondyou
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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.

Removing Icons from LaunchPad in Sierra - Jamf Nation

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