Vmware Vcenter Converter Standalone Unable To Start The Change Tracking Driver Now

She uninstalled Converter completely from the source machine (cleanup with Converter standalone clean-up utility ), deleted leftover VMware folders from ProgramData and AppData\Local , then reinstalled. Still broken.

She checked if the driver was even present. On the source machine, she opened C:\Windows\System32\drivers and looked for vmware-ctk.sys . Nothing. That meant Converter never installed it properly—or the OS blocked it. She uninstalled Converter completely from the source machine

Sarah remembered something from a deep-dive blog she’d read last year: Change Tracking driver issues are almost always about antivirus, stale driver remnants, or missing certificates. stale driver remnants

Same error.