When the first installation didn’t go through I was actually very surprised and preceded to try the installation again. On the second go around I got the following error:
Well, these things just happen now and again so I turned to my friends at Google and see what I can dig up. A few different opinions as to what the problem could be, many of which involve Avast but that’s not the issue in my case.
Another problem some people seemed to have was not having appropriate permissions to install the software on their machine so following those directions make sure to have administrative rights on the machine. Odds are good this is not the problem with most installations so on to the solution that worked.
Follow the path as shown in the image above and DELETE everything in the Temp folder. I had some 600+ files sitting in there which are all unnecessary stuff used by various programs and operations performed at one point or another. It’s completely safe to delete these files and if a person runs Disk Cleanup religiously, it should keep the files down to a manageable state.
Once the Temp folder has been cleared out, restart the computer and navigate over to the installation file for VMWare again BUT instead of simply clicking to install, perform a right click which should bring up an options window and click on “ Run as Administrator”. At this point the installation should go as planned.
Gotta love those small bugs that keep you on your toes.
