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What credentials are you using to install VMware Workstation ? Is UAC enabled in Windows Vista ?
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What credentials are you using to install VMware Workstation ? Is UAC enabled in Windows Vista ?

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It was 5.5.2 and I was using my admin credentials with UAC disabled. &nbsp;I ended up downloading the trial of the latest greatest version and it installs but I haven't gotten it working yet. It still can't open my old VMs so I guess i'll just make a new one &gt;&lt;
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It was 5.5.2 and I was using my admin credentials with UAC disabled.  I ended up downloading the trial of the latest greatest version and it installs but I haven't gotten it working yet. It still can't open my old VMs so I guess i'll just make a new one ><

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I have tried this several times now and I cannot get VMware Workstation to install on my machine. &nbsp;It looks like it's installing and then in the end it says the install has been interupted and gives me a finish button. &nbsp;If I look in c:\program files (x86)\ a VMware folder appears and is populated but then at the last min. it dissapears. &nbsp;Any ideas why I can't get this to run?
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I have tried this several times now and I cannot get VMware Workstation to install on my machine.  It looks like it's installing and then in the end it says the install has been interupted and gives me a finish button.  If I look in c:\program files (x86)\ a VMware folder appears and is populated but then at the last min. it dissapears.  Any ideas why I can't get this to run?

Cannot get VMware Workstation installed on 64-bit Vista

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Windows OS

Windows Vista is an operating system created by Microsoft as the successor to Windows XP. It was intended for PCs, workstations and laptops, and shares the same code base as its successor, Windows 7. New features included an updated graphical user interface (GUI) and visual style dubbed Aero, a new search component called Windows Search, redesigned networking, audio, print and display subsystems, and new multimedia tools. Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs.

Windows Vista

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.