Workstation User’s Manual
120 VMware, Inc.
Use the Windows Control Panel to Display the Taskbar Icon
IfVMwareToolsisinstalledinaWindowsguestoperatingsystembutthe
VMware ToolsicondoesnotappearinthenotificationareaoftheWindowstaskbar,
youcanusetheWindowsControlPaneltodisplayit.
To use the Windows Control Panel to display the taskbar icon
1GotoStart>ControlPanel.
2Double‐clicktheVMwareToolsicon.
3OntheOptionstab,sel
ectShowVMwareToolsinthetaskbarandclickApply.
Options Tab Settings
TheOptionstaboftheVMwareToolscontrolpanelprovidesthefollowingoptions:
Timesynchronizationbetweenthevirtualmachineandthehostoperating
system–Setsthetimeoftheguestoperatingsystemtobethesameasthetimeof
thehostandthenperiodically(everyminute)checkswhethertheguestoperating
system’stimematchesthatofthehost’s.Ifnot,theclockonthegu
estis
synchronizedtomatchtheclockonthehost.
Iftheclockontheguestfallsbehindtheclockonthehost,VMwareToolsmoves
theclockontheguestforwardtomatchtheclockonthehost.Iftheclockonthe
guestisaheadofthatonthehost,VM
wareToolscausestheclockontheguestto
runmoreslowlyuntiltheclocksaresynchronized.
Ifyouusethisoption,disableallothertimesynchronizationmechanisms.For
example,someguestsmighthaveNTPorCMOSclocksynchronizationturnedon
bydefault.
RegardlessofwhetheryouturnonVM
wareTool
speriodictimesynchronization,
timesynchronizationoccurswhentheVMwareToolsdaemonisstarted(suchas
duringarebootorpoweronoperation),whenresumingavirtualmachinefroma
suspendoperation,afterrevertingtoasnapshot,andaftershrinkingadisk.When
theoperatingsystemstartsorreboots,andwhenyo
ufirstturnonperiodictime
synch
ronization,synchronizationcanbeeitherforwardorbackwardintime.
For otherevents,synchronizationisforwardintime.
Todisabletimesynchronizationcompletely,see“DisableTimeSynchronizationby
EditingtheVirtualMachineConfigurationFile”onpage 121.
ShowVMwareToolsinthetaskbar–(Windowsguestsonly)Displaysthe
VMwareToolsiconinthenotificationareaofthetaskbar.Theiconindicates
whetherVMwareToolsisrunningandwhetheranupdateisavailable.
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