VMWare player grabbing mouse focus

Question

I am using the newest VMWare player on a Windows 7 machine. When I have the player open on one of my two monitors I get some weird behavior.

For instance, if the player is open on monitor 2, and I minimize firefox on monitor 1, my mouse will instantly switch to the monitor 2 and be centered within the VMWare player window.

This happens when I minimize any window after having been working in my VM. I hope there is a setting or tweak that I am not aware of that can remedy this.

EDIT: Through more testing I have found that this only occurs when the VMWare player is full screen on either of my two monitors.

Also, I found people having the exact same issue at: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1244913

Answer 1

Although this tip is for Vista, it may still work in 7:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,1644.html

Be careful inside the registry and dont change anything besides what the website tells you to.

Its only a minor change, you may have to restart your comptuer to experiance the effect.

Answer 2

The page @Tanner Collin originally suggested seems to be returning 404 errors now, but I did find it in the waybackmachine.

I also had a look for other pages detailing how to prevent windows stealing focus. There are a number out there, including these at about.com and howtodothings.com.

Also, this forum thread is interesting, since it describes problems with applications resetting this setting.