I had VMware Workstation 8 working fine on a Windows 7 64-Bit machine.
I bought Workstation 9 and tried to install it, and it said it had to uninstall version 8.
Well, it failed. Now I cannot install ANY version, whether it's version 7, 8, or 9, all registered versions.
The installer is apparently unable to deal with an error uninstalling a previous version. Why?
So it's completely useless.
My options are:
1. Reinstall Windows OS and start from scratch (that will take a couple of days of catching up with installed programs).
2. Completely remove ALL vestiges of previous VMware installations so I can install without being told that the installer found another version.
They have the "/clean" option on the installer, that doesn't work, but it should do what it pretends to do, remove all prior keys and elements.
How about a VMware solution that fixes what the installer obviously cannot fix. It should prepare my computer so it will NOT report any previous versions of VMware so I can install either Version 7, 8, or 9.
As it is now, VMware is a complete waste of time. I have Virtual machines that I was using before this Version 9 upgrade, but they are unusable.
There must be some great excuse for writing an installer that can't install a program. I don't care about earlier versions, earlier keys, earlier settings, I want to install Version 9 as though it was being installed on a new copy of Windows 7.
I've delete everything from the registry, removed the VMware devices from devices, removed VMware files from user ... hidden file local, vmware, and everything else I can find, and VMware installer still thinks I have vmware on my system.
So how about exposing the great secret -- where is the evidence of a prior install, and if you can find it with the installer, how about deleting it with the installer and them proceeding to install?