1. Check that the Windows Installer Service is in manual, but started
2, I have download Windows Defender, and it can be run without problem. (I believe it should be a MSI file)
3. P:> is a local hard drive.

Still have the problem..

Any Advice?
Louie

Here is the "SET" content:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\louie\Application Data
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_08\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
CLIENTNAME=Console
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=PIGGY
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\louie
LOGONSERVER=
PIGGY
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\MPEG;C:\Program Files\DeskAdTop;C:\Program Files\K-Lite Codec Pack\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\Lib\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0f06
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PS5ROOT=C:\Program Files\Roxio\Easy CD Creator 6\PhotoSuite\
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_08\lib\ext\QTJava.zip
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=c:\tmp
TMP=c:\tmp
USERDOMAIN=PIGGY
USERNAME=louie
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\louie
windir=C:\WINDOWS

Having cleaned up the c:\tmp directory, and I try to install it again. same error!!!

Here is the vminst.log:

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Begin Logging
BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Info we are running from --> P:\VMware-workstation-6.0.0-45731.exe

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = OPERATION, lpBuf = INSTALLUPD

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = PRODUCTNAME, lpBuf = VMware Workstation

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = PRODUCTCODE, lpBuf = {A3FF5CB2-FB35-4658-8751-9EDE1D65B3AA}

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = LANGUAGES, lpBuf = 1033 1041

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = VM_DATABASE, lpBuf = VMware Workstation.msi

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = SFXINSERT, lpBuf = 1159168

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = VMIOPTION, lpBuf =

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = MINIMUM_MSI, lpBuf = 200

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = INSTMSIW, lpBuf = instmsiw.exe

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = PROPERTIES NOT FOUND

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = OLDCODES, lpBuf = {74FA0D8F-22A1-42FA-8D43-BF8704EB70EB};{233A935E-6132-48B2-840F-37C9D32555D5};{98D1A713-438C-4A23-8AB6-41B37C4A2D47};{A3FF5CB2-FB35-4658-8751-9EDE1D65B3AA};{31799B14-B3E7-4522-B393-6206C03EC5D3};{A53A11EA-0095-493F-86FA-A15E8A86A405}

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Resource lpName = HELPER_UI NOT FOUND

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Info bWin9X = FALSE, bAdmin = TRUE

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Info Total unpacked size will be 288043740

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Info Extracting setup files to "c:\tmp{A3FF5CB2-FB35-4658-8751-9EDE1D65B3AA}~setup\"

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 Info FreeBytes: 154743169024 Needed Bytes: 586573240

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 --> instmsiw.exe 1822520

BootStrapper: 09/22/07 23:33:15 --> VMware Workstation.msi 8168448

Thanks,

Louie

is your machine in workgroup or part of a windows domain ?
in the domain case, your could have an active GPO restricting what can be run or not
as the GPO use file names (or part of it) and does not check the actual exe content, simply renaming the file does the trick

any further news on the problem??

I have the same problem.

I used your method to install and make the vmware workstation running, but all new virtual machines can't be started with an error message "failed to launch peer process". I suspect it has problems when the underlying program called some files with name started with "vm", do you have this problem??

I have around for this problem but looks like it rarely happens elsewhere.

Please help!

If you google fixcamera.exe theres a lot of talk about it breaking a lot of things. Killing it off seems a good idea. (perhaps rename it so it cant auto start)