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MikeW500
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Starting in full screen fails to use the entire screen

I am running VMware Workstation 15 Player on Windows 10 with a Centos 7 VM. If I start the VM in a window and expand it to full screen after it completed booting, the display uses the full available screen. If I got to Virtual Machine Settings->Options->Power and select Enter full screen mode after powering on, the final view is a small working window on a large black background. Toggling back to a window and into full screen corrects the problem, making use of the entire screen.

Some issue replies on this forum tell me to go to VMware Workstation go to -> Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> Autofit guest. Unfortunately, there is no Display button in this version of VMware player.

How do I get to the equivalent of the Display dialog to set the Autofit guest option, or is there some other way to solve this issue in VMware Workstation 15 Player.

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gwash
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Edit virtual machine settings

Options

Power

check Enter full screen mode after powering on