Andy2718's Posts

I am struggling - really struggling! - to uninstall VMware player and VMware workstation from my Win 10 PC. Windows wants to upgrade but can't, so I am facing having to re-initialise my PC. That's not good news. I've tried eg downloading the installer and re-installing, no use. I've gone through the 1308 uninstall document, no use. I've deleted obvious VMware files left behind, no use. The problem seems to be at this stage of the game no longer Player / Workstation specific. It seems that there are files left behind in eg windows32 which have the same name as generic Microsoft drivers, but if you look inside their "deep" Properties the file is owned by VMware, not by Microsoft. These are very hard to detect. I have questions like, is is safe to delete these files; would it help; would installing the new version of Player help or make things worse; is there an automatic way to search for these files, as manually is both time consuming and uncertain. BUT BUT BUT, my overriding question, is where is the best forum to get proper help  on this problem. It isn't really Player / Workstation specific at this stage, so asking only here may limit things. It's clearly very unfortunate that downloading VMware should cause this much damage, and I wonder if there is some other forum where I would get fuller support. I do hope so. Many thanks! Andrew, Bristol UK

Windows 10 wants to update, but it can't. It is stuck on the error "_P0_VMware Workstation Pro (No-Op)" I've uninstalled VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.9 and VMware Player 12.5.9  in 3 ways: (a) via regular Windows uninstall (b) by using the 12.5.9 installer with /clean (c) by cleaning out every detail of the registry etc according to https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1308. But I am still stuck with the same error. What to do??  In system32 there were a lot of "vm" related entries in  that are not mentioned in 1308 . See attachment for a few of these, but I'm only allowed one attachment so I can't upload the rest of the filenames as they are split over several screens  and I can't think of any  way to collect the names in one file. I carefully only deleted system32 files mentioned in 1308; should I delete everything starting vm?  The original installation was tangled and knotted. I only wanted VMware player, but somehow got both Workstation Pro and some third utility program who name I sadly do not recall. These all showed in the Winkey program list, but the only one to appear in the Settings>uninstall list was Workstation Pro. What to do? Reinstall Windows???? Many thanks!