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How to uninstall VMWare workstation completely ?

Hi Expert
I want completely to uninstall VMWare workstation version 8 in my PC. I tried it many times, but I failed to do that. Do you know some tool to do that ? Someone suggest to delete it in registry table, but I never have used it and I am afraid of other problem. Thank you so much!

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EESky

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Hi Sorry for the late reply due to another project.
Since I am using my present PC, I am afraid of doing that. But someone has another suggestion. He mentioned expand the vmware-work-station file into another folder and use it directly. Here is what said:

You should get the file name for example : VMware-workstation-full-10.0.0-1295980.exe,
so You have to expand the exe file into to temporary folder with command:
VMware-workstation-full-10.0.0-1295980.exe /e c:\temporaryfolder ,
You have to run above command from command line ( cmd.exe ) with Admin privilege

I do not know the path for it. Can you show it to me ? Thank you !

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EESky

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Thanks for your reply. I think what that expert meant is to unzip the VMware-workstation file into a folder, then use the unzipped file to directly install VMWare. This way, we do not need to remove some left component that i could not deleted in my PC. Do you think it can work ?

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@EESky - Thank you, and I was happy to help with this.