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when I upgraded my VMware fusion virtual machine of Windows Vista to Windows 7 everything went smoothly except for the name it was still called Windows Vista in the VMware library here's how I changed that little annoying thing first make sure your virtual machine is powered off not suspended power on all the way off then find your virtual machines folder it's most likely in documents right or ctrl-click on the virtual machine file you want to rename and select show package contents find the dot vmx file right or ctrl click and open with text edit or your favorite text editor find a line called display name and change that to the name you want in my case Windows 7 then save the file now go launch VMware fusion in the library select the wrongly named machine and delete it but this is important choose keep file now go back into finder to your virtual machines folder and rename the virtual machine file name to the correct name now go back to the vmware library choose file then open and browse to the newly renamed virtual machine select it and when it asks if the vm is moved select I copied it and voila your VM has a new name pick a good name won't you I'm Tom Merritt cnet.com