Aaron Tiensivu's Blog

Both of these are completely unoriginal topics to blog about but I keep using them whenever I rebuild my W7 machine with VMWare.

First, taking a tip from Dugie's Pensieve, is the ability to hide the __vmware_user__ from the Welcome screen. It is rather innocent looking by default but some people get bent out of shape seeing a user listed that should not be there. It is just a matter of running: REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList" /v __vmware_user__ /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f or using this registry file.

Second, VMNet adapters show up as unidentified by the host OS. This causes your firewall profile to switch to the Public setting and locks down your computer even on a trusted network. You can use this Powershell script from here to fix the problem. I wouldn't have found this one without Matt's post on it.