Error 'The MSI " Failed." When trying to uninstall VMWare Workstation 7

[scottorourke]

Hi,

I upgraded from Workstation 6.5 to7, not realising I would need a new license to use 7. After running 7 and realising this, I tried to uninstall Workstation 7, but get the error 'The MSI " Failed.' almost immediately after clicking Continue on the "Ready to perform requested operations" dialog.

I noticed the following errors in the log file:

20091130161946:ERROR** CBootstrapCmd::RunOperation: Operation 'UninstallMSI' failed!

20091130161946:INFO wWinMain:Checking exceptions

20091130161946:INFO wWinMain:Handle error

20091130161946:INFO HandleError: Handling error: lang

20091130161946:ERROR** HandleError: Encountered fatal error id: 26

20091130161946:ERROR** HandleError: Message:

20091130161946:ERROR** DisplayErrorMain: Displaying error message

20091130161946:ERROR** DisplayError Error

20091130161946:ERROR** ================================================================================

20091130161946:ERROR** Rolling Back - ops:19

20091130161946:ERROR** -

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20091130161946:ERROR** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

20091130161946:ERROR** SettingsDB:

20091130161946:ERROR** -

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20091130161946:INFO

Any ideas how I can get back to V6.5?

I orginally installed V6, upgraded to V6.5 then 7. This is all on Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Thanks for any help.

Scott.

[duplicatedll]

Frank look at 3 posts up. I used two freeware programs and got all the leftover VMware crap off my computer (or at least enough to install VMware Player)

I know exactly how you feel, I had been trying to install VMware onto my computer for about a year with no luck. Give them a try and see what happens. I know its a pain in the ass but its just a couple programs to run and not having to manually go through the registry, files, folders and crap.