I have been trying to fix this for hours now with no help. The version is VMware-player-5.0.1-894247 on Windows 8 Pro. I am Administrator on this account.
I tried redirecting %TMP% to c:\temp == didn't help
I tried installing on Command prompt as an administrator with the /z switch = /z "action="install" ======= Didn't help
Did the /x ...didn't help either.
Even managed to get a portable Vmware but that failed to open the image file as the file paths aren't there.
Extracted the file and ran the msi, it failed on hcmon driver unable to install. There are no help for this issue as well.
Changed the file name to buggy.exe and did all Continum's random tips as well, didn't help fix.
Thanks in advance.
Attaching the log file,