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VMWare Tools on Windows 2000 install fails (runtime DLLs cannot be installed)
posted on April 21st 2015, at 08:16
by lunarg

When attempting to install VMWare Tools on a Windows 2000 VM, you may get the following error:

Error message
Microsoft Runtime DLLs cannot be installed on this Operating System. Please see Microsoft KB835732

To resolve, you need to install Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB835732) (requires SP4 as well).

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