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Is there a way to disable Unity Mode from ever happening in VMware Fusion 8.5?

I install VMware Fusion for lots of clients.

Often I get calls that "Windows has disappeared". Usually shortly after installation, sometimes months later.

What typically happens is that Unity is enabled. They don't see their application anymore.

How it got enabled is beyond me. I certainly did not and my clients are not the types to fiddle around with settings.

They could have activated the shortcut, but that is unlikely.

In short: I don't want VMware Fusion to be able to activate the Unity Mode in any way.

Question: Is there a way to stop Unity Mode from ever being activated? By accident or deliberately?

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Yes, you can add a VMX flag to disable Unity.

isolation.tools.unity.disable = "TRUE"


How to modify the .vmx file:

Editing the .vmx file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine (1014782) | VMware KB

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF

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Mikero
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Yes, you can add a VMX flag to disable Unity.

isolation.tools.unity.disable = "TRUE"


How to modify the .vmx file:

Editing the .vmx file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine (1014782) | VMware KB

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
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This is great news. Will use it as a default setting immediately. Thank you.