VMWare Workstation is great. The version 6 beta has even more awesome features…  but it's slower than dirt, because debugging mode is turned on by default.

Thankfully there's a quick and easy trick to turn off debugging, which will increase the speed a lot.

Here's what we're going to do:

1. Open an explorer window and browse down to the VMWare install folder. (C:\Program Files\Vmware\VMware Workstation)
2. You'll see two folders, one named bin and another named bin-debug. 
3. Rename bin-debug to bin-debug-old.
4. Make a copy of the bin folder, and name the copied folder bin-debug.
5. Enjoy Workstation 6 without debugging.

Here's a screenshot of what the folder structure now should look like:

(Thanks to Daniel for the screenshot, and my friend Jeff for the tip)