Ever had the problem where you either have a corrupt copy of VMware Tools that can’t be updated or you perform an update and the install fails part way through leaving remnants behind?  These remnants then stop you from reinstalling VMware Tools and you are presented with the following error messages:

Even an uninstall doesn’t always work so unfortunately you’ll have to revert to to manually removing the items from the registry and file system that are stopping a new install from taking place.

The process to resolve this is simple and the following has been taken from VMware’s Knowledge Base article here.  I found that performing these steps helped resolve this problem for me.

In the future I might look at generating a script to perform this for me though it happens so rarely I haven’t felt the need up to now.  Let me know if you’d find a script useful.

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