Fix Your Desktop

When using VMWare in Unity mode, Dock icons and icons shown when using Command-Tab, show up highly pixelated. This can easily rectified with a quick and dirty replacement of the icon.

First locate quality replacement images with transparent backgrounds. For instance, use Google images, and run a search on, for example, Internet Explorer icon. I look for icons that are about 300x300 pixels in size or larger. I drag the image to the Desktop and open it with Preview, using a background colour other than the white used on Google Images, so I can quickly determine if the images have a transparent background.

Once opened in Preview and deemed acceptable, go to Edit » Copy to copy the image to the clipboard. Locate the relevant .vmwarevm virtual machine file -- typically you'll find them in a Virtual Machines folder in your user's Documents folder. Control-click on the folder and choose Show Package Contents from the p...

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