VMWare Workstation: Failed to create the requested registry key error: 1021 (Fix)
by admin on Nov.21, 2012, under Random()
Today I came across an error saying ‘Failed to create the requested registry key error: 1021’ when installing VMWare Workstations 8.0. This errorย occurred because I’ve already had other VMWare products installed on my machine in the past.
In order to fix this problem I had to remove the old VMWare registry entries.
Simply start regedit (Start -> regedit.exe)
For 32-bit systems remove the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.
For 64-bit systems remove the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.
After removing these keys I was able to successfully install VMWare Workstations 8.
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November 24th, 2012 on 04:48
Thank a lot , man ! it worked ๐
March 10th, 2013 on 20:22
Thanks man! ๐
March 19th, 2013 on 20:53
Worked like a charm. Appreciated!
April 27th, 2013 on 11:53
Thank a lot ๐
June 26th, 2013 on 09:38
it worked , thanks a lot
July 6th, 2013 on 09:32
Awesome, thanks!
July 14th, 2013 on 02:15
Thanks, now I can install VmWare on my Windows 8! ๐
August 3rd, 2013 on 11:29
thanks alot Its awesome
August 3rd, 2013 on 16:34
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August 28th, 2013 on 18:36
That was a marvelous Work mate ๐
September 1st, 2013 on 01:40
thanks u da man
September 24th, 2013 on 11:08
thanks
October 8th, 2013 on 13:37
Thank you so much, we could not get to install the program
October 21st, 2013 on 16:59
Thanks a lot — iriblove you
October 23rd, 2013 on 05:48
Thanks you so much for this post, I’m sure you’ve helped a lot of people with this frustrating problem.
November 9th, 2013 on 17:25
Thanks man, you saved me a lot of time ๐
November 14th, 2013 on 13:24
tks man, it is worked :v
December 4th, 2013 on 11:11
this worked after many failed attempts trying to uninstall after MSI failures and had to do a number of things then to find myself with another issue i.e. this error which you’ve kindly put the fix up. wicked dude
December 18th, 2013 on 01:54
you rock! thanks man!
September 5th, 2014 on 15:00
Thanx, it really worked.
September 5th, 2014 on 17:14
thank you
October 27th, 2014 on 14:01
Tnx dude!
January 25th, 2015 on 22:16
This didn’t work for me, exactly.
I was running Version 7 on an old slave drive and wanted to update to Version 8. Since it was never installed on my boot drive, I had to edit the registry:
1. Use F3 to search for any occurances of “VMware”.
2. If Found, delete them.
3. Create the following Keys manually:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMnetLib
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMnetLib\VMnetConfig
Right click the setup file and “Run As Administrator”
Voila!
February 22nd, 2015 on 18:18
Thanks. Worked like a charm.
April 30th, 2015 on 20:55
hello plz i have the same problem where i can find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc. (window 7)
May 6th, 2015 on 01:10
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Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the awesome works guys I’ve included you guys to blogroll.
May 15th, 2015 on 19:00
gracias
November 10th, 2015 on 18:13
Worked for me, thanks
September 5th, 2016 on 19:19
great bro nice help
September 22nd, 2016 on 00:40
thanks it works
December 21st, 2016 on 15:09
Thanks Dude it works
March 18th, 2017 on 16:52
Thanks a lot it worked
March 22nd, 2017 on 14:32
Thanks a lot!!!!! It Worked……….
May 2nd, 2017 on 19:04
YES!!!!i went through so many websites and tried different solutions but nothing was working, this solution of deleting the 64bit key worked like a charm!! thanks