Problems with Drag&Drop and VMWare Workstation 7

Once again I had some trouble with drag&drop between the host and guest using vmware workstation 7. My host is windows 7 and the guest windows xp sp3. I don’t know exactly what fixed the problem in the end but here is what I did: Ensured the gust is running on 32bit color depth Uninstalled vmware tools, reboot, reinstalled vmware tools restart vmware-user process (on guest) restart vmware-tools service (on guest) Tried to disable drag and drop in the guest isolation (read this in some forum) Enabled drag and drop in the guest isolation options again Enabled VMCI in guest isolation page Shutdown the vmware guest system Restart -> fixed

VMWare Workstation 6.5 Drag & Drop not working

I had this problem a few times now. After creating a machine or updating to the current version of vmware workstation the drag and drop feature did not work anymore. This is used to put files from physical machine to the virtual and back. The following post presented the solution: http://blogs.aspguru.ch/stephan/archive/2008/11/26/vmware-workstation-drag-and-drop-problem.aspx You just have to set the color quality of the virtual machine from „Medium (16 bit)“ colors to „Highest (32 bit)“ colors and it works again immediately.