Hi,
Thanks for this investigation, I'm tried to find since many hours why it doesn't work and finally read this thread !
I don't really understand why VMware do nothing about this issue. I tried on VMware Workstation 9 and the problem still persist.
VMware Workstation is used a lot by it consultants etc... and so lots of SSL VPN (Junniper, Microsoft UAG, Cisco, ...). All theses VPN need to use Winsock.
For my case I juste have Microsoft UAG 2010 client (ActiveX) installed and this VMware features failed. Not another Winsock drivers.
I can't uninstall this ActiveX, I need to connect to my Customer IT. I think we need an alternative.
Alex