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Thus, before you run that exe, you may want to rename your old windows.iso to something else, so that you can both tell whether the downgrade process completed successfully and have the ability to switch back between ISOs if needed.
Instead, it's a tar of an exe that silently extracts and copies (overwrites) a new windows.iso in the VMWare directory.
Of course the download is not provided as an ISO, because that would be too easy. The VMWare Tools download is then found in //windows/packages/ (eg. #OLDER VERSION OF VMWARE PLAYER DOWNLOAD UPDATE#
You can obtain older versions of the VMWare Tools by navigating the not-intended-for-users VMWare Software Update directory, starting at. It is that ISO image that is mounted in the virtual machine during installation. After they are downloaded by the Player, the VMWare tools are installed, as a windows.iso file, in your VMWare installation directory (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\VMWare\VMWare Player\). In case you're running the VMWare Player on Windows, to emulate another Windows virtual platform, here's what you should know: I'm looking at you VMWare Tools 8.8.0 from VMWare Player 4.0.0 using a Windows 2000 image! And as you may have already found out, when that occurs, the VMWare Software as well as the VMWare community are less than helpful. First of all, yes, sometimes the latest version of the VMWare Tools can fail and you want to downgrade. Lost enough time with this already so I'll be short.