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Setting preferences for VMware Tools

To set preferences for VMware Tools:

  1. Double-click the VMware Tools icon in the system tray.
  2. The "Devices" tab allows you to enable or disable removable devices. (You can also set these options from the "Devices" menu of the Workstation application window.)
  3. The "Shrink" tab allows you to remove unused disk blocks from your virtual disk, thereby reducing (shrinking) the amount of storage space consumed by the virtual disk. It also reorganizes your virtual disk so that its data blocks are contiguous.
  4. The "Defragment" tab allows you to reorganize your virtual disk so that its data blocks are contiguous, but does not remove unused disk blocks.
  5. The "Other" tab shows the "Miscellaneous Options":

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