Lenovo ThinkPad
Windows 7 64-bit
Core i7 Quad-Core, 16 GB RAM
240 GB Samsung 840-pro SSD
Installed VMware Workstation 10 as a trial today. Started it up, selected "I want to try VMware Workstation 10 for 30 days", entered my email, and clicked 'continue.
Got this:
To keep a long story short, I have the following registry key that can't be deleted, and won't retain any permissions I set: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.\Installer\VMware Workstation\Features
When I try to edit the permissions, I get this:
I've tried everything I can think of... I've run several registry editors (as an administrator), I've taken ownership of the key and sub-keys, I've removed the security inheritance and explicitly replaced the owner and permissions on the key and its children... everything works fine, but I still can't delete, and when I re-open the permissions dialog, I'm back to "No permissions have been assigned to this object". I've disabled all services and startup processes that might be locking the key; nada.
Went into the installer and chose "repair" - got the ever-so-helpful reply "instead of repair re-run the installer" (why give me a button ifnevermind). Chose uninstall - got this:
Yay. Now not only am I unable to run the trial, I have a corrupted registry that I can't clean. Anyone have suggestions?