VMWare Player "Hanging" When Launched, Windows 7

[timswim78]

I have VMWare Player installed on three machines, and all of them experience the same issue. When I launch VMWare Player, a black window opens and is not not responsive for about 20 seconds. After about 20 seconds, the list of VM's appears. When I select one of the VM's the window again becomes unresponsive for about 10 seconds, before it allows me to click "Play" on the VM.

It's not the biggest problem in the world, but it is somewhat annoying. Is anyone else having these problems, and have you found a solution.

Machine 1 (Work Desktop) - Core i5, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Enterprise (x86), VMWare Player 3.14

Machine 2 (Personal Laptop) - Celeron Dual Core, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium (x64), VMWare Player 3.14

Machine 3 (Personal Desktop) - Quad-Core LLano, 16GB RAM, Windows 7 Professional (x64), tried both VMWare Player 3.14 and 4.0.

 

[timswim78]

I researched the issue some more today and found that some users are reporting the same issues. Their solution was to disable update checking. I did this, and now VMWare Player starts up with no issues.