Improve VMware Console Mouse Experience with Windows Server 2008

Did you notice that since Windows 2008, console mouse experience is really crap. Not a big deal because you need to get out of that console view ASAP anyway. But after working with some environments which I only had console access I got really frustrated and fired up Google to look for a way to improve it. Right away I found that changing the VGA driver would solve the problem, this is so simple that it makes me wonder why this alternate driver is not default?

Here how to do it:

1. Open the Device Manager and expand your Display adapters. Right click the display adapter and select Update driver software…
2. Click Browse my computer for driver software
3. Now select the driver shown in the image below. It is copied to that location upon installation of VMware tools, so they must be present. For best results ensure you are using the latest version of VMTools.
   
4. Finally, Windows will find and update the video adapters driver with the WDDM version as seen below. You will need to restart your server as is noted in the dialog box 

Source: http://vm-pro.com/improve-vmware-console-mouse-experience-with-windows-server-2008/

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