I recently had an issue where a MS update killed my windows explorer and forced me to do a wipe and reload. I completely erased by hard drive, deleted the partitions, recreated the partitions and then formated it. I install win-7 pro and started to reinstall my old programs. Everything installs fine except VMware Player. It seems like it does not have permission to access the registry. Here is the error I get:
Could not create key:\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Player\Domant\License.player.5.0.e.1.201209. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personel.
I tried the following
1. Rerun the install as admin (my PC only has one user account and it is the admin but I tried this anyways)
2. Re-download the installer package
3. Manually created the key
4. Added permission to the key to allow full control by all users of the PC
5. Went to the parent key (SOFTWARE) and gave that full control permission from all users
Nothing works. I dont understand why this wont install. I have the UAC turned off and I am running it from an admin account. I have installed several other programs and all installed perfectly fine.
Any help would be appreciated
J-Mac