I have three monitors on my host, and I find that recently VMWare Workstation has "developed" a problem changing to a three displays guest.
When I'm trying to change to a three-monitors or even a two-monitors layout (using the toolbar) Workstation sometimes "extends" my desktop, so that instead of appearing on two physical screens it appears on the center extended with scroll-bars, so I can scroll to the "other monitor" but it isn't displayed on the physical monitor.
The problem mostly appears when trying to switch from a one-monitor to a three-monitors layout, so I have to "coach" Workstation, gently going through the two-monitors layout. Sometime this works, sometimes this doesn't.
I've used Workstation for years, and this is a new problem.
Is this happening to others? Any idea how to solve this? Maybe something in my settings?
Thanks in advance
Avi
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VMWare Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776
VMWare Tools 9.6.1 build-1378637
Host: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
Guest: Windows 8.1
Three Dell monitors on the host. On the sides are monitors identified as 2 (left) and 3 (right), tilted with 1050x1680 resolution. The main, central one identified as 1, has 1920x1200 resolution.
VM Settings:
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Display: Auto Detect
Accelerated 3D Graphics
Use Host Settings for monitors
VMWare Preferences:
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Autofit: Autofit Window
Full screen: Autofit guest