This has bugged me for 2 days now. There are many forum threads, KB articles and guides out there that point to the right direction, but none of them worked out for me. However, today I finally got rid of Workstation 8!
And here is what I did:
First I got the VMware installer from the VMware Homepage.
Then I opened a command prompt as a local administrator. I switched to the location of the installer, and started it in “Uninstall mode”.
C:\>cd C:\Downloads C:\Downloads>VMware-workstation-full-8.0.1-528992.exe /x
On the dialogue I choose “Repair”. After the installer finished his work and my machine has rebooted, I was able to uninstall VMware Workstation. iWin!
Questions? Comments?
Tried several tweaks, finally this worked for me.