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I couldn't find a resolution to this anywhere.   I'm not able to upgrade my instance of Workstation 17.02 Pro to 17.5 Pro.  I've tried both the in-app upgrade and upgrading from the full download.  ... See more...
I couldn't find a resolution to this anywhere.   I'm not able to upgrade my instance of Workstation 17.02 Pro to 17.5 Pro.  I've tried both the in-app upgrade and upgrading from the full download.  As soon as the upgrade starts, a message pops up with the following: "This installer requires you to restart your system to finish installing Microsoft VC Redistributable and then re-run the installer." It then references a Knowledge Base Article from 2020 about an old version of the VC Redistributable.  I've restarted multiple times, changed the permissions on the upgrade executable, nothing seems to work, and I can't find anything in any log. I've even gone and upgraded the VC manually.  I'm stumped. The only thing I haven't done is a full uninstall and clean install, though I have a suspicion that it won't solve the issue.      
Intel Core i7, multi-core, running Windows 10 Pro Build 19043. Updated Workstation Pro to 16.2.1, all my windows VMs now show this problem on startup except for 1, which is using identical virtual h... See more...
Intel Core i7, multi-core, running Windows 10 Pro Build 19043. Updated Workstation Pro to 16.2.1, all my windows VMs now show this problem on startup except for 1, which is using identical virtual hardware specs to the others. This isn't purely a Windows 11 problem.  Its a VMware 16.x problem.  I don't have the install executable for 16.1 so I can't even roll back and apparently Workstation Pro doesn't come with any support because my license shows no entitlement and I can't even figure out a way to GET entitlement.