I am running Workstation 9 on an i7 box with Server 2008 R2 on the host. I am having an intermittent issue where after I reboot the host, I am unable to launch Workstation 9. When I double-click the desktop link, the VM manager doesn't start up. However when I check the task manager, I see an instance of 'vmware.exe' running. If I click the icon a few more times, I get multiple vmware.exe instances in the task manager. The Workstation icon does appear in the notifcation area, but clicking that doesn't work either, no matter how long I wait.
I have to reboot the host a second time to get it working again. Does anyone have any ideas what might be happening here?