Upgrade to 8.0.1 has totally destroyed my install...

[admin]

Be very careful of auto update, this has completely destroyed my WS install, I cannot install or uninstall and as such canot do any work.... nice

Anyone else had this and how did you cure as I am unable to force uninstall also..

What a nightmare...my PC is completely broken...

[dariusd]

Hi ZippyDaMCT,

You might find the solution in KB 1031302: Troubleshooting an MSI error during a VMware product or Tools installation.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

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Darius

[quiettime]

I couldn't uninstall Workstation 8 on my Vista hosts. What I had to do involved running the original installer with the /clean option and following a whole lot of other steps. Then I installed workstation 7 again.

Look at this:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1308

So what I did when the uninstall didn't work was:

VMware-workstation-full-8.0.0-471780.exe /clean

then I followed the directions but not exactly. They aren't yet updated for WS8. So I think I had to uninstall more services (all prefixed VMWare) and also with the drivers like hcmon they showed up as VMWare hcmon, VMWare vmx86 etc (all prefixed VMWare).

I didn't bother with steps 8 or 9. Also I went into autoruns (free from Microsoft/Sysinternals) and deleted everything VMWare (it's easier to id 3rd party stuff if you choose to hide microsoft entries).

Then reboot and install the latest WS8 I guess. We've had it with it. We're going to wait a bit until the bugs are ironed out.

[admin]

Sorry guys its a no go, I now get the following error when trying to install as Admin user.

Must admit, never EVER in 20+ years of IT had a program as troublesome as this, I'm going to have to rebuild my PC, not to happy about this is an understatement.

arghhh

[quiettime · Accepted solution]

Forgive me for stating the obvious but did you search google for "UNKNOWN\Components"? Here's a good example

http://www.okino.com/conv/changing_windows_registry_permissions.htm

I'm going to sleep now good luck to you

[admin]

Worked, highlighted the whole lot, changed permissions - then installed as Administrator... evan though I am one.. ;0

[continuum]

> then installed as Administrator... evan though I am one

Hey - on Windows 7 the  administrator is just another restricted user as long as you have that UAC nonsense enabled

[admin]

Thanks UAC disabled, a pain in the butt that feature of windows.

[continuum]

yep - MS-developers said the UAC feature is intended to be anoying