VMware Player
How to uninstall VMware Player from your computer
This web page is about VMware Player for Windows. Below you can find details on how to uninstall it from your PC. The Windows version was developed by
VMware, Inc.. Check out
here where you can find out more on VMware, Inc.. vmplayer.exe is the programs's main file and it takes about 1.75 MB (1838016 bytes) on disk.
VMware Player contains of the executables below. They take 157.37 MB (
165018368 bytes) on disk.
- 7za.exe (1.10 MB)
- containerd-shim-crx-v2.exe (20.12 MB)
- containerd.exe (18.52 MB)
- drvInst64.exe (531.94 KB)
- mkisofs.exe (425.53 KB)
- vmnat.exe (410.44 KB)
- VMnetDHCP.exe (364.44 KB)
- vmplayer.exe (1.75 MB)
- vmrest.exe (6.18 MB)
- vmrun.exe (500.44 KB)
- vmUpdateLauncher.exe (50.94 KB)
- vmware-authd.exe (76.44 KB)
- vmware-kvm.exe (677.94 KB)
- vmware-remotemks.exe (3.98 MB)
- vmware-unity-helper.exe (190.94 KB)
- vnetlib.exe (1.02 MB)
- vnetlib64.exe (1.22 MB)
- vnetsniffer.exe (275.44 KB)
- vnetstats.exe (269.94 KB)
- zip.exe (294.44 KB)
- docker-machine-driver-vmware.exe (8.67 MB)
- vctl.exe (26.85 MB)
- ovftool.exe (5.64 MB)
- storePwd.exe (133.44 KB)
- VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe (773.44 KB)
- VMwareToolsUpgrader9x.exe (206.44 KB)
- VMwareToolsUpgraderNT.exe (206.44 KB)
- mksSandbox-debug.exe (5.17 MB)
- mksSandbox.exe (4.19 MB)
- tpm2emu.exe (985.94 KB)
- vmware-vmx-debug.exe (26.75 MB)
- vmware-vmx.exe (19.99 MB)
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17.5.1 of VMware Player. Click on the links below for other VMware Player versions:
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Quite a few files, folders and Windows registry entries can not be removed when you are trying to remove VMware Player from your PC.
Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the data below:- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VMware Player
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\1DAC75139B5FFC34EB15AF7EE2A775D6
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{3157CAD1-F5B9-43CF-BE51-FAE72E7A576D}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware Player
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.\VMware Player
Open regedit.exe in order to delete the following registry values:- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\1DAC75139B5FFC34EB15AF7EE2A775D6\ProductName
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Windows\Installer\{3157CAD1-F5B9-43CF-BE51-FAE72E7A576D}\
How to delete VMware Player from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO
VMware Player is a program released by VMware, Inc.. Frequently, people want to uninstall this application. This is difficult because uninstalling this manually requires some know-how related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best QUICK solution 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 already installed on your PC, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and all around tool to optimize your PC.
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- download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
- install Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.
3. Click on the General Tools category
4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool
5. A list of the programs installed on your PC will be made available to you
6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate VMware Player or simply activate the Search field and type in "VMware Player". The VMware Player application will be found very quickly. When you click VMware Player in the list of applications, the following information regarding the application is made 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.
- Technical information regarding the app you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.
7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will appear. Confirm the uninstall by clicking the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove VMware Player.
8. After removing VMware Player, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong VMware Player which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling VMware Player using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your disk.
Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.
Disclaimer
This page is not a piece of advice to remove VMware Player by VMware, Inc. from your computer, we are not saying that VMware Player by VMware, Inc. is not a good application for your PC. This page simply contains detailed instructions on how to remove VMware Player supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.
Last update on: 2024-03-01 07:58:07.267