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?