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DocuMatt
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VM completely crashes randomly and dual screen mode is unreliable at best.

Hello,

I have VMware Workstation 10 running on a Windows 8.1 x64 host with a Windows 8.1 x64 guest. Sometimes the VM crashes and instructs me to gather support information. Another issue I have is that when I choose two screen mode it will sometimes stay on one screen and will create a scroll bar. (Almost as if I do not have a second screen.) I find that I can avoid this by doing into device manager and removing the extra monitor that remains in the VM from the last time I used two screens. I have attached the support files that were created. One thing that may be a factor is that I have a Toshiba Dynadock that runs two of my 4 screens. This was never a problem in older versions of VMware though.

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Update: I seem to have figured out a way of preventing my screen issue. After booting my VM I need to go into Device Manager in the guest OS and remove the second "Generic PnP Monitor." If I enter multi screen mode after that it will load on both screens normally.

Edit: This does not work all the time. I am at a loss this makes no sense at all.

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