Free tool for cleaning up VMware Fusion virtual machine disks

VMware Install Cleaner may be used when cleaning up, defragmenting, and shrinking Vmware Fusion virtual machines. It is not an official VMware application, but it may be useful after you have shrunk the virtual disk using official VMware utility tools.

It doesn't promise the impossible

VMware Install Cleaner doesn’t allow you to reduce the size of your virtual machine’s pre-allocated disk because that is not possible. If the size of your virtual disk is larger than the space shown within your virtual machine’s OS, then VMware Install Cleaner is used after you defragment and shrink your disk. It is helpful if you were having trouble using Fusion’s cleanup tools to manually clean up larger files, (the smaller ones are optimized automatically). You need to shut down your virtual machine, use this tool, and then restart your virtual disk to see an effect. Some people use this tool to remove registry files from their computer. If you are having lots of trouble installing new VM software, then using a tool to manually remove old registry files may help.

A handy second choice

VMware Install Cleaner is not the go-to tool for registry and virtual machine disk cleanup because Fusion has already-installed functionalities to take care of the cleanup process. With Fusion, you go to Go to Virtual Machine > Settings > General, and choose to clean up your virtual machine. If you have problems with further product installs, or if you have trouble manually cleaning larger disk files, then VMware Install Cleaner may be a handy second choice.

  • Pros

    • Very lightweight
    • A nice backup tool
  • Cons

    • Generates unreliability reports with Norton because it is underused
    • Use Windows backwards-compatibility function to get it working
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App specs

  • License

    Free

  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Windows

  • OS

    Windows 7

  • Language

    English

  • Downloads

    43.1K

    Last month's downloads

    • 208
  • Size

    17.46 KB

  • Developer

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VMware Install Cleaner for PC

  • Free
  • In English
  • V0
  • 3.1
  • (63)

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by Anonymous

This product fixed my issue in 30 seconds.. I almost never review items but this one deserves 5 Stars from me. I had a user that attempted to upgrade from VMPlayer 4.x to 6.0. The installer attempted to uninstall the previous version. FAILED.... Spent the better part of a day following VMware's instructions, got nothing but RunTime Error R6002. Used this tool and 30 seconds later I was in business. Thank you Softonic, this really, REALLY worked. Pros: Fast and Free Cons: Nothing

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