vmware player install hangs? vista 32bit

Hi I am a noob trying to setup my computer so i can make a social networking website. Sorry if its not kosher to ask here, but Hopefully one of you smart guys can help me.

I want to test some CMS (content management systems), firstly Elgg and then some others. As far as ive read i can do this by using a virtual machine like VMware Player.

Now originally i wanted to try out Insoshi so i tried to use Cygwin and GitBash (also Putty tools) to download it (with no success). This involved me installing those programs and also trying to get an ssh environment variable working. So i gaveup on that (seeing that Elgg has more support anyhow i thought id try to try that). I uninstalled these programs, deleted leftover directories and deleted the added environment variable.

I also uninstalled DaemonTools (cos i thought it may be conflicting). Im running Windows Vista 32bit and have always downloaded relevant installs for that system.

My problem is the VMware Player installer isn't doing anything. I launch it and it seems to hang straight away see pic

Am i missing something here? Vmware page also suggests a virtual appliance (for cloud stuff) which i dont know much about yet. And i think that appliance is installed via the player else an image loader like Daemon Tools. Do i need this appliance first? Why is the player not installing? Ive tried both 3.14 and 3.13 build with same result? I have about 4 gig of space left on my hd and have 3gig of ram. I have looked at the programs installed on my computer and cant seem to find anything else that might conflict (but i am a n00b) and i also tried pausi开发者_Python百科ng my kapersky pure protection. Any help is severely appreciated, thanks.

As I recall there were a couple of conflicts with vmware

A quick look through the vmware forums I see:

• visualsvn
• virtualPC (no surprise)
• nvidia 270.18 beta driver
• avg

I also remember there being talk on the forums about a specific executable name which caused issues, but Im struggling to remember what it was.

1. start regedit.exe
2. Browse to the following sub-key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\
3. You should see keys named 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. In my case I had a folder named "L" before the 0.
4. Remove the key with "L" (actually it is "└", unicode #2514)

P.S. This is due to Microsoft screws up the registry Internet Zone settings in the registry. With the "└" key, it cause Javascript not to be called from an application.

Got it from here.