When designing your VMware Horizon View infrastructure, creating a Virtual Desktop master image is second only to infrastructure design in terms of importance. The reason for this is simple; as ubiquitous as Microsoft Windows is, it was never designed to be a hosted Virtual Desktop. The good news is that with a careful bit of planning, and a thorough understanding of what your end users need, you can build a Windows desktop that serves all your needs, while requiring the bare minimum of infrastructure resources.
A default installation of Windows contains many optional components and configuration settings that are either unsuitable for, or not needed in, a Virtual Desktop environment, and understanding their impact is critical to maintaining Virtual Desktop performance over time and during peak levels of use.
Uninstalling unneeded components and disabling services or scheduled tasks that are not required will help reduce the amount of resources...