I have a Windows 7 guest that was happily running in Player 15.5 under Windows 8.1 build 9600, but ever since I fixed my dual-monitor configuration in Windows 8 so that the 2nd monitor works and the resolution behaves correctly on the 1st monitor, the Windows 7 guest has crashed with a Blue Screen of Death (the crash screen says Windows 7 was loading the ndis.sys driver at the time of the crash).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe I simply need to reinstall Player to take into account the new monitor drivers?
I finally successfully navigated through the system-crash menus and was able to boot to safe-mode-without-network. Device Manager informed me that one of the numerous vmWare network drivers listed had failed to load, so I've deleted that, and maybe now it will work.
No joy. Onward to Last Known Good configuration boot.