I have windows 8 and tried to install VMware-player-6.0.7 and got .msi file failed error initially..
I have fixed this using your suggested steps with few additional fixes as follows:
1.Started the installation, but did not proceed when I got to the "Continue" button that will start the installation,copied the C:\Temp\vmware_xxxxxxxxxx(xxx..unique number) file to some other location
and allowed to fail.
2.Copied the vmware_xxxxxxxxxx saved file to C:\Temp folder, double-click on vmwareplayer_x64.msi to install.
It gave another error : “The user did not accept the license agreement by passing EULAS_AGREED=1 on the command line.”
3.To resolve EULAS_AGREED=1 error have executed the following command :
C:\Temp\vmware_xxxxxxxxxx>vmwareplayer_x64.msi EULAS_AGREED=1
Again it gave another error "Fails to install - HCMON Driver" and did not find any Non-Plug and Play Drivers in device manager to uninstall the HCMON Driver.
4.uninstalled the avast antivirus and restarted the system.
5.Repeated the step 3 and got successfully installed.