Before the computer was installed VMware 10, for a long time unloaded, and did not care about the uninstall of dry clean, until the recent need to use a Linux system, reinstall VMware 12, the following situation occurs:
Warning 1909. Unable to create shortcut for VMware Workstation Pro.ink.
From the Internet to find a variety of methods after the test is not ideal, and then carefully look at the above hints, meaning that can not create shortcuts, may be the user in the shortcut folder read and Write permissions are not enough, then go to find the folder to store shortcuts to try:
This is the path below, you can find the shortcut folder!
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
(Start menu is the following start menus)
The first step:
Steps: On the Start Menu folder, right-click Properties, Security->users-> Edit, Full Control, OK.
Step Two:
Step: Right-click the VMware installation file and run as Administrator.
Step Three:
Warning 1909. Unable to create shortcut for VMware Workstation Pro.ink. Workaround (with Vmware_workstation 12 installation method)