The "The MSI failed" solution is prompted when you uninstall VMware.

When The "The MSI failed" solution prompts when you uninstall VMware to install The lite version VM and then install another version of The VM, or if you want to upgrade and install a higher version, unable to uninstall normally (if The MSI failed prompt is displayed), you can solve The problem by referring to The following methods. (The registry value, file, and device mentioned in this Article. if the system does not exist, ignore it .) Manually uninstall: manually clear registry start → run → regedit click hkey-local-machine → software → find the VMware file and right-click to delete it. (Find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ VMware, inc] and delete this VMware and inc.) operating on the registry may cause the system to fail to start normally, back up registry 1 before modifying the registry. log on to the local computer as an administrator. stop the following services: VMware Authentication Service VMware Registration Service VMware DHCP Service VMware NAT Service 3. uninstall VMware network bridge> Settings> network connection> right-click any network adapter> properties select VMware Bridge Protocol and uninstall 4. uninstall device computer management installed in VMware> Device Manager> View> show hidden devices double-click the plug-and-play driver, delete the following hcmon VMware Network Application Interface VMparport vmx86 VMware Bridge Protocol double-click the Network adapter to uninstall the Network device with the words VMware 5.run vmware_install_cleaner.exe (which can be downloaded here) http://download.csdn.net/detail/xxdddail/6265655 ) 6. the default installation location for deleting the folder where your installer is located is C: \ Program Files \ VMware. The specific location depends on the location you set when installing the software. Note: if your virtual system is also in this directory, save the virtual system file before deleting it. the default folder for deleting Application information is C: \ Documents ents and Settings \ All Users \ Application Data \ VMware \. 8. delete the folder of the VMware program group, which is located at C: \ Documents and Settings \ All Users \ Start Menu \ Programs \ VMware \. 9. delete the desktop shortcut icon 10. delete the following files in the system folder (NOTE: For Windows, replace "WINNT" in the path with "Windows") % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vmnat.exe % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ v Mnetbridge.exe % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vmnetdhcp. conf % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ VMNetDHCP.exe % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vmnetdhcp. leases % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vmnetnat. conf % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vmxw2ksetup. dll % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vnetprobe.exe % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vnetprobelib. dll % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vnetinst. dll % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vnet Lib. dll % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ vnetlib.exe % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmnet. sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmnetx. sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ VMparport. sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmx86.sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmnetadapter. sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmnetbridge. sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmnetuserif. sy S % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ hcmon. sys % SystemDrive % \ WINNT \ system32 \ drivers \ vmusb. sys 11. delete _ vmware_user _ users and _ vmware _ user groups in the local user group management. after restarting the computer, if the new version of VM (such as VM10) cannot be uninstalled properly, install the original version of VM (such as VM9.0.2 in the original version ), then install and uninstall. (I successfully installed VM10.0 through this method ). You can refer to this method to solve the uninstallation problem when you install the advanced version of the lite version VM.