I'm not sure why this bug reporting is suggested in the first place since this is Player Discussion and Player does not include Support. To my understanding this IS the place for getting information on bug fixes and rising the interest to fix them.

As commented before - IF (nobody has acknowledged this) this is a Windows 10 regression, it might be very hard for the application to fix it. The reason is that if the problem is in Windows system files, an application cannot start changing or modifying them - not in Windows architecture. There was a similar problem with Common Dialog, that took a very long time for Microsoft to fix - some application functionality was impossible without rewriting the application. An obvious way to go round this in VMware, is to use a Linux host. It's not expensive nor time-consuming.