> bridged adapter settings? Yes.

> There’s a bunch of initialization work on every boot because of how the Hyper-V adapters are configured (which I hate) so VMware might be tearing adapter bridges/vSwitches down & remaking them each boot.

It resets everytime the main windows os is rebooted so it sound like this.

Like I said, I've never seen settings behind UAC prompts being reset, I've seen settings being reset by windows updates, but never something like this on a day to day basis.