The devil is in the details, and a detail that was overlooked by the VMware guys is the systray icon in vmware 15.x or 16.x Well it's white on transparent which means it becomes practically invisible if you use the white/light taskbar available on latest Windows versions. So I just modded it to for people who prefer the light taskbar (but isn't that bad on the dark one). Stock<---------------> Mod That's all the file is from 16.1.2 (the last good vmware version) but it works on any 16.x or 15.x release (personally tested on 16.2.4 16.2.0 and 15.5.7)