VMware Server on windows 7 host, will not autostart invited after upgrade to vista

I have upgraded vista to winodws 7.  I had to reinstall vmserver 2.01 for networking.  The last problem is that Vmserver auto start the guest.

I changed the options for start/stop of the virtual machine settings.

This worked under Vista 32-bit, but not under Windows 7 RTM 32-bit.

any ideas?

I am currently using vmrun to start from a batch file

Follow-up: I could get this to work, although the causes escapes me and the fix is not pretty:

1. Remove VMWare Server

2 remove folders vmware related in c:\program files (or installed path)

3. manually remove all references to "vmware" of the registry

4 reboot.

5 reinstall the server vmware to the default locations.

I tried everything but the manual registry clean.  (Standard warning blow your system here)  Once I did this and reinstalled, now auto-start for clients with the host properly operating system.

I hope this helps someone else.

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