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Personally I would preferred to use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse. In fact, you may said you can save a lot of time using mouse for certain task. In some cases, you must know the right keys to push to do what you need to do much more faster.

There are some required VMware keyboard shortcuts you should know:

Ctrl+B - Power on the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+D - Edit the Virtual Machine Settings
Ctrl+E - Power off the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+G - Grab input from mouse & keyboard
Ctrl+N - Create a new Virtual Machine
Ctrl+O - Open a Virtual Machine
Ctrl+P - Edit User Preferences
Ctrl+R - Reset Virtual Machine
Ctrl+Z - Suspend the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+F4 - Close the selected Virtual Machine
Ctrl+Alt - Return to normal(windowed) mode
Ctrl+Alt+Enter - Switch to Full Screen Mode
Ctrl+Tab - Switch between open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed. VMware Workstation must be the active application. Read more »

Microsoft Windows XP or Vista control panel can adjust and tweak Windows’ appearance, performance, network connections, security, power, hardware settings and etc.

But to access the Windows Control Panel, you need to navigate through the Start menu or create a shortcut on your computer desktop. Just like an executable or programs file, Control panel applets can easily be launch from the ‘run‘ command. Again, there is no difference with opening items from the Windows Control Panel, but this can save several steps from navigate through the Start menu.

For example, to launch Add New Hardware Wizard, just type hdwwiz.cpl in the run command field and click OK.

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