VMware Player

How to uninstall VMware Player from your system

This info is about VMware Player for Windows. Below you can find details on how to remove it from your PC. It was created for Windows by VMware, Inc. More information on VMware, Inc can be found here. Click on http://www.vmware.com to get more details about VMware Player on VMware, Inc's website. VMware Player is commonly set up in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player folder, however this location can differ a lot depending on the user's decision while installing the application. C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware is the full command line if you want to uninstall VMware Player. VMware Player's main file takes about 3.93 MB (4118168 bytes) and is called vmplayer.exe.

VMware Player installs the following the executables on your PC, occupying about 54.05 MB (56679280 bytes) on disk.

• drvInst64.exe (433.65 KB)
• mkisofs.exe (421.74 KB)
• vixDiskMountServer.exe (408.15 KB)
• vmnat.exe (423.65 KB)
• VMnetDHCP.exe (346.15 KB)
• vmplayer.exe (3.93 MB)
• vmUpdateLauncher.exe (58.65 KB)
• vmware-authd.exe (77.50 KB)
• vmware-remotemks-debug.exe (2.85 MB)
• vmware-remotemks.exe (2.60 MB)
• vmware-unity-helper.exe (176.65 KB)
• vmware-vmx.exe (14.41 MB)
• vnetlib.exe (743.65 KB)
• vnetlib64.exe (896.15 KB)
• vnetsniffer.exe (340.65 KB)
• vnetstats.exe (326.15 KB)
• vprintproxy.exe (11.00 KB)
• zip.exe (290.65 KB)
• ovftool.exe (8.67 MB)
• storePwd.exe (68.65 KB)
• VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe (588.15 KB)
• VMwareToolsUpgrader9x.exe (202.65 KB)
• VMwareToolsUpgraderNT.exe (202.65 KB)
• vmware-vmx.exe (15.72 MB)

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This info is about VMware Player version 4.0.5.33341 alone. You can find here a few links to other VMware Player releases:

• 5.0.1
• 4.0.6.35970
• 3.1.4.16648
• 7.1.1
• 3.0.1.11056
• 5.0.4
• 4.0.4.30409
• 5.0.0
• 6.0.6
• 3.0.0.9563
• 6.0.2
• 7.1.2
• 6.0.1
• 4.0.5.30808
• 7.0.0
• 6.0.7
• 4.0.2.28060
• 3.1.0.12623
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.5
• 7.1.3
• 3.1.5.19539
• 7.1.4
• 6.0.0
• 3.1.6.30422
• 4.0.0.18997
• 4.0.1.27038
• 4.0.3.29699
• 6.0.4
• 3.0.0.9911
• 3.1.2.14247
• 3.1.1.13618
• 5.0.2
• 7.1.0
• 3.1.3.14951
• 5.0.3

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How to erase VMware Player from your computer with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VMware Player is a program offered by VMware, Inc. Sometimes, users decide to uninstall it. This is hard because removing this manually takes some know-how regarding Windows internal functioning. The best QUICK practice to uninstall VMware Player is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your system, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around tool to optimize your system.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's interface and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the applications existing on your PC will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find VMware Player or simply activate the Search feature and type in "VMware Player". The VMware Player program will be found very quickly. When you click VMware Player in the list of programs, some information regarding the program is available to you:

• Star rating (in the lower left corner). This tells you the opinion other people have regarding VMware Player, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the application you wish to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.

For instance you can see that for VMware Player:

• The web site of the application is: http://www.vmware.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall VMware Player.


8. After removing VMware Player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of VMware Player that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling VMware Player with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your computer.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

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Disclaimer

This page is not a piece of advice to remove VMware Player by VMware, Inc from your computer, nor are we saying that VMware Player by VMware, Inc is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove VMware Player in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.