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
