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Vmware 17 Unlocker [work] Jun 2026

regedit.exe is a GUI based registry editor. A console based registry editor is reg.exe
Surprisingly, at least to me, regedit.exe is located under %SystemRoot% rather than under %SystemRoot%\System32.
regedit.exe can be used in cmd.exe to import data into the registry or to export portions of the registry.

Vmware 17 Unlocker [work] Jun 2026

: Adds the "Apple Mac OS X" option to the Guest OS selection menu during VM creation.

The VMware Unlocker is a third-party, open-source tool (most famously developed by a user named "DrDonk") designed to patch VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) to enable the creation and running of macOS virtual machines. The "VMware 17 Unlocker" refers specifically to versions of this tool that are compatible with VMware Workstation 17.x and VMware Fusion 12.x/13.x. vmware 17 unlocker

Do not download random EXEs from YouTube descriptions. The original trusted source is the GitHub repository (e.g., paolo-projects/unlocker ). Look for the v4.3.2 release. : Adds the "Apple Mac OS X" option

Contrary to popular myth, the unlocker does not "crack" VMware or remove license keys. It simply restores a feature that already exists in the code base (macOS is fully supported in VMware ESXi and Fusion for Mac). The unlocker tells Workstation 17, "Yes, you are allowed to display Darwin/macOS as an option." Do not download random EXEs from YouTube descriptions

is a powerful Type-2 hypervisor that allows users to run multiple operating systems (guests) on a single physical machine (host). By default, VMware supports a wide range of guest OSes, including Windows, Linux, and BSD. However, it notably lacks official, out-of-the-box support for macOS as a guest operating system.

Understanding the technical side helps in troubleshooting potential issues. VMware uses a closed-source hypervisor. Within the installation folder, there are specific files (such as .vmware-vmx and .vmwarebase.dll ) that contain code checking for valid hardware IDs.

Showing an (independent) registry hive

The menu File -> Load Hive allows to show an «independent» registry hive. This menu is active when one of the «top level» keys (such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER) is selected.
This operation only shows the data of the hive, it does not import it.
When such a hive is loaded, its data can be modified normally.
The menu File -> Unload Hive will disassociate the loaded hive from regedit.
See also reg load and the WinAPI function RegLoadAppKey.

Favorites

The menu Favorites allows to add and remove registry paths so that they can quickly be navigated to. Added paths are also shown in this menu.
The favorite paths are stored in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit\Favorites

Opening the registry at a given key

Unfortunately, regedit.exe does not have a command line option to specify a registry key that should be displayed when regedit.exe starts.
However, regedit.exe stores the last visited key in the registry (where else) under the value LastKey in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit.
So, in order to open the registry at a specific key, one needs to first change the value of LastKey and then start regedit.exe.
This idea is implemented in the batch file regat.bat and the PowerShell version regat.ps1. regat stands for registry at.
The same idea is formulated with the Perl module Win32::TieRegistry which can be used to manipulate the registry with Perl: op-reg-at.pl.
Another tool that does the same thing is regjump.exe (by Sysinternals).

Exporting a sub-tree

Choosing *.txt format when exporting a sub tree causes the produced file to reveal the time stamps of the last write time.

See also

regedit.exe does not consider hyphens when sorting items.
reg.exe
regini.exe

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