Hi,
Thx first of all for your answer.
But you are missing the point. I try to install a VMware Player version 7, not one < 6. When I do this I have no issue whatsoever. Only the upgrade to version 6++ fails with the screenshots taken above. And the version 7, which I want to install, cannot be extracted anymore with the parameter /e funnily. Tried this, been there, not working 
Update:
When I try to uninstall directly from the users ProgramData folder, it logs the following after throwing the error, that the bootstrap.lua was not found:
"
| 20150123055942:INFO | ================================================================= |
| 20150123055942:INFO | Begin |
| 20150123055942:INFO | ================================================================= |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain Command Line: ["C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\Uninstaller\uninstall.exe" ] |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain: Lang: 1031 |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain: Locale: 1031 |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:InitCommonControls |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:AfxEnableControlContainer |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Setting cwd |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Creating new package manager |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Check for existing installer |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Creating new configuration file |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Creating and do command |
20150123055942:NOTICE CBzipPackage::LoadHeaders 2 : 12894362145
| 20150123055942:INFO | CBzipPackage::LoadHeaders: Header at location 12894362145 in file 'C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\Uninstaller\uninstall.exe' is not a valid header |
20150123055942:NOTICE CBzipPackage::OpenPackage: Successfully opened package C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\Uninstaller\uninstall.exe
| 20150123055942:INFO | CBootstrapCmd::InitializePackageManager: SearchPaths [] |
20150123055942:NOTICE ================================================================================
20150123055942:NOTICE CBootstrapCmd::RunScript: Preparing to bootstrap the lua script
20150123055942:NOTICE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 20150123055942:INFO | SaveSetting: Wrote setting 'force_silent', value '0' |
| 20150123055942:INFO | SaveSetting: Wrote setting 'extraction_dir', value 'e:\Temp\vmware_1421992782\' |
| 20150123055942:INFO | CBootstrapCmd::RegisterLuaFunctions: Successfully Registered C Lua Functions |
| 20150123055942:INFO | CPackageManager::GetFile: bootstrap.lua |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Checking exceptions [3] |
| 20150123055942:INFO | wWinMain:Handle error |
| 20150123055942:INFO | HandleError: Handling error: [3] lang [1031] |
20150123055942:ERROR** HandleError: Encountered fatal error id: 3
20150123055942:ERROR** HandleError: Message: [File bootstrap.lua was not found]
20150123055942:ERROR** DisplayErrorMain: Displaying error message
20150123055942:ERROR** DisplayError Error [File bootstrap.lua was not found]
20150123055942:ERROR** ================================================================================
20150123055942:ERROR** Rolling Back - ops:0
20150123055942:ERROR** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 20150123055942:INFO | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 20150123055942:INFO | SettingsDB: |
| 20150123055942:INFO | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 20150123055942:INFO | 0 |
| 20150123055942:INFO | force_silent = 0 |
| 20150123055942:INFO | e:\Temp\vmware_1421992782\ |
| 20150123055942:INFO | extraction_dir = e:\Temp\vmware_1421992782\ |
| 20150123055942:INFO | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
20150123055942:ERROR** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20150123055942:ERROR** Completed Rollback
20150123055942:ERROR** ================================================================================
| 20150123055942:INFO | OperationFactory: Preparing to unload all modules |
| 20150123055942:INFO | OperationFactory: Unloaded all modules |
| 20150123055942:INFO | CHtmlUI::Destroy: Destroyed the UI |
| 20150123055942:INFO | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 20150123055942:INFO | SettingsDB: |
| 20150123055942:INFO | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 20150123055942:INFO | 0 |
| 20150123055942:INFO | force_silent = 0 |
| 20150123055942:INFO | e:\Temp\vmware_1421992782\ |
| 20150123055942:INFO | extraction_dir = e:\Temp\vmware_1421992782\ |
| 20150123055942:INFO | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
20150123055942:NOTICE CBzipPackage::ClosePackage: Successfully closed package C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Player\Uninstaller\uninstall.exe
| 20150123060014:INFO | wWinMain:Not removing installer because install was not successful |
| 20150123060014:INFO | wWinMain:Finished processing command |
| 20150123060014:INFO | ================================================================= |
| 20150123060014:INFO | End |
| 20150123060014:INFO | ================================================================= |
"
As you can see in the screensnippet below, it is clearly there:
Does somebody have any other thoughts?
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
T