I cannot upgrade to ,or install, VMware Workstation 17.6 Pro for Windows

[Einar104]

Hello,

I have been trying to upgarde from VMware Workstation 17.5.2 Pro to VMware Workstation 17.6 Pro

- without success!

All my attempts have failed with the follows pop-up;

An error occurred while applying security setting. Users is not a valid user or group. This could be a problem

with the package, or a problem connecting to a domain controller or network. Check your network connection

and click retry, or Cancel to end the install.

 

Retry does not help. Also after Canceling the setup says:

VMware Workstation Pro Setup was interrupted. Your system has not been modified. To install this

program at a later time, please run the installation again. Click the Finnish button to exit the Setup Wizard.

This is far from the truth - my installation was totally destroyed!

 

I have downloaded VMware-workstation-full-17.6.0-24238078.exe again and compared it with UltraCompare

to my first download - and the two files were identical.

 

I have also tried to upgrade from version 17.0.1 – with the same bad result.

Please help.

Best regards,

Einar

[Chob Thierry]

Hello,

the solution has been notified several times for this malfunction

Before adding these users, the question is: is security compromised ?

Use command prompt as administrator

net localgroup /add "Users"

net localgroup /add "Authenticated Users"
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[TomRBerg]

VMware Workstation 17.6 has a bug if it is installed on non-english Windows. Broadcom is aware of it and is working on solving it. I recommend staying on 17.5.2 until it has been fixed.