If you did all of that and still see the following in the vmware.log file for your VM:

Monitor Mode: ULM

workstation is still trying to run under Hyper-V and not the VMware hypervisor. You have not completely disabled Hyper-V even though it's listed as not installed.

Did you completely turn off Hyper-V by running

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

in an elevated command line prompt?