How to Fix Google Chrome Blank Popups in VMware Workstation

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VMware Popups Are Blank

The blank popups mainly appeared in Google Chrome, but I’ve seen a couple of them with the new Microsoft Edge as well (not sure about this, but this could make sense as this is also a Chromium-based browser).

If you’ve also noticed that your VMware popups are blank, you will probably agree that this can be very annoying, because you are unable to see any buttons in the popups and thus have no idea where to click in order to interact with them. Or you cannot open Google Chrome menu.

How to Fix Google Chrome Blank Popups in VMware Workstation

Disable blank popups in Google Chrome in VMware

First, open Google Chrome settings page.

How to Fix Google Chrome Blank Popups in VMware Workstation

If you cannot open Google Chrome settings using the menu because it’s blank as well. You can type chrome://settings/ in the URL bar to open the settings page.

How to Fix Google Chrome Blank Popups in VMware Workstation

In the search box, type hardware acceleration then select to disable “Use hardware acceleration when available” option. Click Relaunch to restart Google Chrome.

How to Fix Google Chrome Blank Popups in VMware Workstation

As you can see, the blank screen was gone.

How to Fix Google Chrome Blank Popups in VMware Workstation

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