I am having the same problem. It didn't even occur to me to rename the file.
I tried to reinstall the player and it wouldn't even do that! What a weird
thing.
"dlhayes" wrote:
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> Freaky.. My VMware stopped working without notice. I uninstalled the
> VMplayer and attempted reinstalling, to my shock, I didn't have permission to
> install. Following attempts showed no warnings. Tricked the reinstaller by
> renaming it to 'player.exe' and it worked. VMWare player still didn't work,
> changed the VMplayer.exe to Mplayer.exe and it opened, but subsequent
> services it calls (VMdns.exe, VMservices.exe etc) can't be opened. I change
> notepad.exe to vmnotepad.exe and it fails. How on earth? Anyone hazard a
> guess? Malbytes shows up clean.