Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2021 November 8

= November 8 =

VMware Workstation tooltips
I am running the free for noncommercial use version of VMware Workstation Player 16.2.0 under windows 10. It does a great job of running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

Whenever I switch my mouse from my desktop to my virtual machine I get a tool tip balloon that says "To release input, press Ctrl+Alt". VMWare puts this balloon right over the DOS prompt.

It seems like turning off tooltips should be a configuration setting but I can't find it.

Googling "disable VMware Workstation tooltips" brought up suggestions from 9 years ago to use a HEX editor to modiyfy vmware.exe. That's a big nope.

https://github.com/Si13n7/VMwareTooltipRemoval looks like it does what I want to do. Does this look like a reasonable solution?

14:06, 8 November 2021 (UTC)2600:1700:D0A0:21B0:ADEA:91C7:477A:C80E (talk)

Having a look through the repo, it seems to have the necessary bits and pieces and should work well enough. I would recommend blocking it's internet access, as the program is abandoned and might have security holes. Also note that in future versions this program might break, however for now it should work perfectly well for what you need. KeK, signing off (talk) 15:29, 8 November 2021 (UTC)