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Go to VM/ Settings.... or Ctrl+D in VMware Workstation. Under Virtual Machine Settings go to Options Click on Shared Folders and click on Always Enabled and set the path of the shared folder from Windows. To check to see if Ubuntu is aware that there is a shared folder available run this command in a terminal  vmware-hgfsclient Now all we have to do is to re install the VMWare config tools. Tools will be mounted as below: Open and copy the the VMWareTools.gz to desktop and extract it. Open terminal, type sudo  space and drog drop the vmware-config-tools.pl from extracted folder. Follow the prompts, accepting the default values (press Enter) Share folder will be available under Other Locations/ Computer/ mnt/ hgfs/ SharedFolder

As long as you are not using your Virtual Machine to test sketchy or otherwise suspicious programs, you may wish to disable your Antivirus for increasing your Virtual Machine performance. You can add VM folders in your antivirus exception list. To do so, follow the below simple steps: In Host OS open Avast Antivirus. Click on Menu and a new window will appear. Click on Settings and a new window will appear. Go to Exceptions and click on ADD EXCEPTION button and a new window will appear. Either paste your Virtual Machine folder path or click on BROWSE and select your Virtual Machine folder and click OK . All done, now Avast will not scan the files from provided path. Caution: Please do this at your own risk. A virus from the Host Machine can infect the Virtual Machine and vise versa.