Most of my work is done in virtual machines running under VMware Workstation. Each virtual machine contains the necessary tools for the targeted project. My physical machine on the other hand contains common tools such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Mozilla Firefox… etc.
I use Firefox with Adblock for internet browsing. So when I'm working and I need something from the web I generally go back to my physical machine and download it. To copy it to the VM I just drag-n-drop it directly from Firefox downloads to the VM.
Most of the downloads come in archives. And sometimes I don't want to copy the whole thing from the archive but only a few files.
What I do actually is I drag the files from WinRAR to a local folder then to the virtual machine.
What would be nice is to be able to drag files directly from WinRAR to VMware Workstation VMs directly.