VMware Workstation is a popular software for creating virtual machines. It can be used to create multiple virtual machines on different systems, and it can be used to manage multiple virtual machines. However, some users find that it can be difficult to keep the virtual machines hidden from the system tray. This article will show you how to make VMware Workstation always hide the system tray. First, open VMware Workstation and click on the Preferences button. Then, click on the General tab. On the General tab, you will find two options: Hide System Tray Icon and Hide Tray Icon When Virtual Machine Is Started. The first option should be set to false by default. The second option should be set to true by default. Now, open a new window and type “netstat -an” into the window’s input field. You will see a list of all network interfaces in your system. You will also see a list of all processes that are running on your system. You will see a process called “vmware-workstation” in this list. If you click on this process, you will see its details in a new window that has been created by VMware Workstation. The first thing that you will notice is that “vmware-workstation” is running as an administrator user account on your system. This process is responsible for managing all of the virtual machines that are running on your system. The second thing that you will notice is that “vmware-workstation” has hidden the system tray from its screen when it starts up. This means that when you start up VMware Workstation, it won’t show any icons or notifications about the existence of the system tray in its interface or in its logs (if any).
The only problem is that when you click the close button on the VMware window, you get a prompt saying “Some virtual machines are still powered on. You can continue to run these virtual machines in the background, suspend them for later use, or power them off now.“
I always want my virtual machines to run in the background!
You can disable that window by just telling VMware to always run virtual machines in the background by going to Edit \ Preferences.
Click the checkbox that says “Run powered on virtual machines in background after close”. Now when you click the close button, it will always just minimize the virtual machines to the system tray. Very useful!
