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Windows Task Bar Thumbnails don't update

The Windows Task Bar thumbnail view doesn't update any of the thumbnails, except for the currently selected VM.

This doesn't make sense. Thumbnails not being updated don't provide any information whatsoever.

Please fix the Windows Task Bar thumbnail view so that all running VMs' thumbnails are getting updated regularly, at least once per second.

In the following screenshot I started VM #3 and #4 at the same time. VM #4's thumbnail is being updated because it's the currently selected VM in the VMware Workstation program window. VM #3's thumbnail, however, is not being updated and still shows a screenshot from the last moment the VM was actively selected in the VMware Workstation window.

VMware Task Thumbnails.png

VMware: Can you please confirm this issue and put it on the backlog for a future VMware Workstation version?

PS: As you can see from this screenshot, thumbnails' buttons are hard to read because they're designed without a border/dropshadow or a contrasting background.



[VMware]: Workstation 17 Pro; --
[host]: Windows 10x64 host; --
[guests]: Windows 10x64, Windows 8x64.
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WhiteKnight
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No answer yet..?



[VMware]: Workstation 17 Pro; --
[host]: Windows 10x64 host; --
[guests]: Windows 10x64, Windows 8x64.
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