After installing VMware tools, windows 8 unusable

[Hipolit]

But when I install the VMware-tools system starts acting weird. The setup tools hangs with a black screen and the virtual machine must be reset. Then on the next boot, I only see beautiful new wallpaper with a road between the mountains, but cannot interact with the virtual machine in any way. Even ignoring ALT, CTRL + DELETE.I go back to snapshot now. By the way - does anyone know how to disable the icon overlay dark hiding the regular start button?

[Badrunath]

Our SVGA video driver does not seem to work well with Win8 at this time. Some users have reported that it works best if the reduction of memory to 2 GB.Try using the default driver in place and / or reduce the memory to 2 GB.

[Proteus]

The only way I was able to get any ability to use Windows 8 was to close the Green Hell. There are things you can install, but they come from Russia and require installation. 3. Something network. Follow the steps.

1. Type win+r
2. Go to regedit
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
4. Double-Click on RPEnabled.
5. Type 0 in the Value data box.
6. Click ok
7. Log off and log on again

[kauffmann]

I find the way to solve this issues.When you install the vmware tools , choose customize options ,and expand VMWare Device Drivers , select the SVGA Drivers ,choose not installed this features . Click next and reboot the Virtual machine .Hope this can help !