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streamrdr
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Unable to uninstall VMWare Workstation for upgrade

I'm having difficulty in upgrading my VMWare Workstation.

When I run setup, I get the message "Setup has detected that VMWare Workstation is already installed on this machine. Please uninstall this product through Add/Remove Programs and try again."

The problem is that VMWare Workstation DOES NOT APPEAR under All/Remove Programs in the Control Panel so I can't uninstall the product.

How do I get around this problem???

Thanks!

John

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KevinG
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Hi John,

Did you try the installer from the command line with the /c option to uninstall the previous version?

Example"

VMware-workstation-5.5.3-34685.exe /c

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streamrdr
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That did it.

Thanks!

John

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