Faster VMWare

I was struggeling with the slowliness of my VMWare Workstation machine. I gave it 12 GB ram and 4 core processors
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Well it turned out that assigning it more processors, actually made it slower. I reduced the processor to 1

 

Cool explanation http://serverfault.com/questions/89057/vmware-7-processors-vs-cores

I also modified some settings in the config.ini located in c:\programmdata\vmware\vmware workstation\

(This file might not exist if you have the default settings, so make any kind of settings in the VMWare to make the file appear)

installerDefaults.autoSoftwareUpdateEnabled = "yes"
installerDefaults.componentDownloadEnabled = "yes"
installerDefaults.dataCollectionEnabled = "no"
mks.ctlAltDel.ignore = "TRUE"
host.cpukHz = "3000000"
host.noTSC = "TRUE"
ptsc.noTSC = "TRUE"
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"
datastore.name = "local"
defaultVMPath = "E:\DEV_Image"

datastore.localpath = "E:\DEV_Image\"

sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "TRUE"
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

security.host.ruissl = "FALSE"

mainMem.partialLazySave = "FALSE"
mainMem.partialLazyRestore = "FALSE"
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"

Isolation.tools.copy.enable = "true"
Isolation.tools.paste.enable = "true"
Isolation.tools.HGFS.disable = "false"

What these settings mean and what they are for you can look up  here
http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-config-ini.html