Comments on: Remote control of VMware Workstation using RDP

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:18:03 +0000

Thanks a lot man!

I was about to give up on ESXi4 cause of this problem!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:36:55 +0000

Thanks so much – my problem was on Windows 2008 and the hardware acceleration setting fixed it for me. Brilliant!

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:47:40 +0000

Thanks, I have been searching for an answer to the choppiness for a long time. The ‘Disable Pointer Shadow’ tip worked for me. Thanks for sharing.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:17:11 +0000

I have been suffering with this problem for ages now and never thought to disable that!
Brilliant find! Many thanks!

By: DonLuigi

DonLuigi — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:34:10 +0000

A life saver! I also was stuck with jerky mouse cursor. “Disable mouse pointer shadow” works like a charm. Thanks.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:12:46 +0000

Thanks! The shadow really works.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:51:04 +0000

Fantastic help. I have been trying to work out why my mouse was so slow for about 2 months. In the end it was the mouse shadow. Thanks again.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:43:49 +0000

The best, most complete article about this issue of VMware Workstation ever found. Useful for XP, 2000, Vista and Server 2008!
Thanks.

By: BigGrizzly

BigGrizzly — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:36:19 +0000

Great ! This damn’ shadow was THE thing that slows down all my W2K and WXP VM’s through RDP… Many thanks for the helpful clues !

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:56:49 +0000

You’re welcome. Just in case you plan to run Windows Server 2008 under VMware, then you have to set your graphics adapter to maximum hardware acceleration (display settings -> troubleshooting) after you installed the VMware tools

By: Kashif Memon

Kashif Memon — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:41:41 +0000

your article is very much helpful. I was using windows 2000 professional in vmware environment through Remote Desktop and the mouse pointer was very slow I spent 3 to 4 days but could not figure out the problem but after reading your article I tried the second step “Disable mouse pointer shadow” and finally the issue resolved.
Thanks Michael