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2 Replies Last post: Jun 23, 2009 6:11 AM by weeksraw
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Uninstalling the trial version of VMware Player

Jun 16, 2009 1:37 AM

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Jun 16, 2009

I installed trial versions of both the Player and Server about 6 months ago....and today tried to uninstall as I am going to be recieving licensed version of the workstation soon....however there is no program listed in the Add/Remove Programs of windows for to remove the Player and Server software and I cannot uninstall these....

I have looked in the program directory and cannot find either a file to uninstall...any ideas on how I can remove these from my compute in preperation for my workstation....seems something is corrupt as this should be a simple task and I am not confident in tweaking the registry to remove these programs...

Reply Re: Uninstalling the trial version of VMware Player Jun 16, 2009 5:36 AM
Click to view RDPetruska's profile Guru RDPetruska 15,853 posts since
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Try re-running the Player installation setup file (from a command line) with the switch /c to clean up a bad install/uninstall. If that doesn't work, try the VMware Cleaner, and other manual steps, found in knowledgebase article 1308.
Reply Re: Uninstalling the trial version of VMware Player Jun 23, 2009 6:11 AM
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Jun 16, 2009
Thanks a million it worked!

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