I don't think it's a mere coincidence that so many VMware Workstation users are having the same issue though so based on a recent post about the vmtools tray icon, I'm guessing that there is a conflict between the way VMware Tools and the Intel Control Panel both monitor the ALT keyfor hotkey combinations, since the underlying issue wasn't really with the Tab key itself. I found that after disabling those hotkeys as shown in the image below, the Tab issue went away. ![]() The Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel has a Hot Key Manager and is enabled by default. The workaround of pressing Windows+Tab several times did not work for me, however, I think I did find the resolution - at least in my situaiton: That being said, I am having the same issue of the tab key losing focus from the current window and I have in fact verified that the driver is not installed as shown in the screen shot attachment. If you do not see this image then the driver is installed and could be causing a conflict: ![]() The way to determine this is easy:įrom within Workstation 8, go to the VM menu > Settings > click on the Options tab > look at the bottom right of the window for the indication as shown in the following image. For those folks (earlier in this thread) the question was whether or not the enhanced keyboard driver was installed. Hello - first let me applaud the patience of the VMware engineers for having repeatedly asked the same question over and over with most people having not answered yet feeling entitled to get more and more upset. VMware folks, let me know if you want me to try anything to help troubleshoot. I tried to replicate by quitting Word, etc, starting VMware, and launching the virtual machine and then starting up Word, etc on in Win 7 on the computer, but the tab key functioned normally. I force ended the process, opened Word, Excel, and Firefox and the tab key functioned normally. I opened the Task manager, and the only VMware process running was vmware-tray. The problem still persisted, even after quitting and restarting Word, Excel, and Firefox. (General Settings - Enhanced Virtual Keyboard Driver - Off, and a message below it says "The VMware keyboard driver is not installed on the host.") I shut down the virtual machine I was running (Windows 8 public pre-release) and quit VMWare. I do not have the enhanced keyboard driver installed, as determined by the method suggested above. Hitting the tab key seemed to kick the active cursor out of the program (eg, the window running Excel was not the active window, the desktop was). I just had the same tab key problem while running VMware 8.0.2 build-591240, in the background on my Windows box running Win7 圆4) in Word 2010, Excel 2010 and in Firefox.
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