I recently tried to upgrade to the latest VmWare WorkStation version and the install completly broke my computer. After system restore (Windows 7 64-bit) and tried to reinstall but the VMWare system processes were still in the background and I cannot remove them. I followed the instructions to MANUALLY remove all traces of workstation from my computer and apparantly there must be a hidden file because i still cant remove the processes such as
vmware-usb-arbitrator.exe etc... I want to reinstall vmware but after running the installer it says there are workstation processes still runinning and to uninstall them completly before continuing. I have downloaded the vmware removal utility and it said it had removed everything but this is completly false. PLEASE HELP ME GET RID OF ALL THE CRAP SO I CAN REINSTALL WORKSTATION ONCE AGAIN!
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Message was edited by: spartan948265
please tell us the name of the processes that still run
do you use UAC ? - it often is necessary in such corrupted installs to disable it - then you should be able to stop the service from the commandline or service management
UAC is permenantly disabled and was disabled after installation of Windows.
The following SERVICES are: VMware NAT Service (PID: 1244) VMUSBArbService (PID: 2784) VMnet DHCP (PID: 3152)
The following PROCESSES are: vmnat.exe *32 vmnetdhcp.exe *32 vmware-usbarbitrator.exe *32
you can not use taskmanager to kill them ?
to get rid of vmware usb arbitrator try
net stop hcmon
net stop vmusbarbservice
if you really cant kill them try to delete this keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VMUSBArbService
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\vmusb
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\hcmon
or better: set start-type to disabled for those services.
Then next reboot should help
for the other two it is similar
try
net stop "VMware NAT Service"
net stop "VMnetDHCP"
I did as you asked and th service was stopped on the 2nd try. I redownloaded the latest Workstation 8 Installer and it tried to uninstall the left over fragments of vmware workstation7 and I got the following error. "Error 1316. A network error occured while attempting to read from the file C:\Windows\Installer\vmware workstation.msi"
does this key still exist ?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.
can you read that key ?
try the installer with /clean commandline option
That Registry entry was deleted by the removal tool.Those processes are now gone after removing them and restarting the computer. I ran the command and it completed sucessfully. Any thoughts? The installer now says "Error Running Processes Detected. Please close all virtual machines and VMWare related processes.
So no one has any idea on how to fix this???
Dude, did this ever get resolved? I am having similar issue but on Ubuntu Linux with Workstation 9 and 10.