Comments on: Disable Spotlight for VMware Fusion

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:44:20 +0000

Thank you!

To disable "Open with" in Fusion 2.0.8, go to Settings/Sharing on each system. Disable "Allow your Mac to open applications…."

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:07:55 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

By: the Blue Ape

the Blue Ape — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:47:48 +0000

To remove the VMware applications from the finder 'Open With…' menu in Fusion 3.1:

1. go to the virtual machine list (shift-command-L)
(do below for each machine)
2. click 'Settings'
3. click on 'Applications'
4. select the 'Default Applications' tab
5. UN-check "Open your Mac files and Weblinks using your Windows applications"

voila! Why on earth VMware made this a default setting is beyond me.

By: Dineth

Dineth — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:20:14 +0000

Thank you.

By: Disable Spotlight for VMware Fusion and Save your sanity « LouisinLondon : London , IT and New Media Blog

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:56:21 +0000

[...] Well, luckily there is a way to disable this integration with Spotlight, so you only run Windows when you absolutely intended to do so. Disable Spotlight for VMware Fusion [...]

By: Granville Barker

Granville Barker — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:04:10 +0000

Thanks, that was a great help, I've been wanting to get that windows stuff out of spotlight for a while!

By: Bob G.

Bob G. — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:22:31 +0000

Great. I was looking for this!

By: Ben Robison

Ben Robison — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:46:56 +0000

Thanks for this. First hit on Google, and it's exactly what I was looking for.

By: Luca

Luca — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:26:22 +0000

THANKS, really ;)

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:18 +0000

Thank You!!! That was driving me nuts!

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:09:48 +0000

Oh, good post! This has been driving me nuts! I had gotten so trigger-happy with spotlight cmd-space shortcut that it became really silly when Fusion kept starting up because the Windows equivalent application was always the top of the list.

I think it is because when the virtual machine starts all the application aliases get renewed… at least that is what I understand by looking in the Today smart folder; there they all are as if I had just opened them all. So I suppose Spotlight is somehow fooled into treating them as regularly accessed.

By: Alessandra

Alessandra — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:51:55 +0000

Thanks, good post!
I have also the problem with "open with …" in the finder :(.
Can you help me?

By: Hemen H. Mehta

Hemen H. Mehta — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:38:58 +0000

Thanks, I have been looking for a way to do this as I run Fusion all day long.