I live with the workaround that I have the VMware Authorisation Service permanently disabled, and only enable it long enough to start the service, then immediately disable it again (whilst its still running) so I can then start up VMs.

Also note that I keep all other VMware services and VMware related host level NICs permanently disabled on the PC by personal preference, partly because the VMs are a lab environment that does not require access to any network external to the host (I actually also run a Photon Router VM with multiple host only networks to allow cross-vlan traffic within my lab so the various VMs can talk to each other from different vlans/subnets).