Restored snapshot still shows newly installed program

[kmatteaton]

I installed Visual Studio 2017 this week on a Windows 7 64 bit VM using 12.5.2. It messed some things up in older Visual Studio environments so I restored a snapshot from earlier in the week. After restoring the snapshot (and verifying that is what I am using with Snapshot manager), Visual Studio 2017 is STILL installed! I then restored to a snapshot from last week. It is STILL there! Shouldn't I see the total state of the machine at that time, when it did not have Visual Studio 2017 installed?

[a_p_]

How did you restore the Snapshot? Going to a previous snapshot will restore the snapshot's state.

The Delete function merges current changes to it's base disk, i.e. will preserve the current state.

André

[WhiteKnight]

I had the same situation three years ago.

Back then, I suggested to add a Snapshot Restored confirmation dialog.

Nothing happened yet.

[kmatteaton]

Initially I just restored the most recent snapshot. When the restored snapshot showed Visual Studio still installed, I tried restoring the snapshot before that. Then I deleted the (originally) oldest snapshot. Nothing works. I've gone back a full month of snapshots now, my VM is ruined.

[rharry]

we need to see the vmware.log for the session where you did the revert to snapshot operation, plus a full listing of the VM's home directory (on the host).