Unidentified Network issue with VMWare’s virtual NICs in Vista | a Single Point of Contact

I ran into the problem of the virtual network adapters used by VMWare virtual machines remaining unidentified after I reinstalled VMWare Workstation (version 6.5.4) on my freshly installed Windows 7 build (I figured that it was time for an upgrade from XP).

I found the fix at Matt Wade's blog, a Single Point of Contact:

Unidentified Network issue with VMWare’s virtual NICs in Vista | a Single Point of Contact