I user brought me their Latitude D600 due to a possible “power issue”. The laptop was losing its integrated NIC, so he was going to uninstall VMware as part of the troubleshooting process.

I'm trying to set up VMWare's VI client for an ESXi 3.5u4 install at home. The host system is all ready to go, but now when I try to run the installer (VMware-viclient.exe) on my Windows XP SP3 laptop ...