VMware Horizon Client

A guide to uninstall VMware Horizon Client from your computer

This web page contains complete information on how to remove VMware Horizon Client for Windows. It was coded for Windows by VMware, Inc.. Further information on VMware, Inc. can be found here. Further information about VMware Horizon Client can be seen at http://www.vmware.com. Usually the VMware Horizon Client application is placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client folder, depending on the user's option during install. MsiExec.exe /X{0771AA0E-A472-4FCE-A700-EA2982AE1139} is the full command line if you want to remove VMware Horizon Client. The program's main executable file has a size of 8.99 MB (9424432 bytes) on disk and is labeled vmware-view.exe.

The following executables are installed alongside VMware Horizon Client. They occupy about 19.56 MB (20507816 bytes) on disk.

• vmUpdateLauncher.exe (55.96 KB)
• vmware-appstub.exe (59.96 KB)
• vmware-view.exe (8.99 MB)
• horizon_client_service.exe (432.46 KB)
• 7za.exe (968.55 KB)
• ws_diag.exe (1.17 MB)
• ws_diag.exe (1.31 MB)
• vmware-print-helper.exe (746.46 KB)
• vmware-print-previewer.exe (51.46 KB)
• vmware-print-redir-client.exe (1.39 MB)
• vmware-remotemks.exe (2.64 MB)
• vmware-view-usbdloader.exe (40.46 KB)
• HTML5VideoPlayer.exe (1.76 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 5.4.1.11072 of VMware Horizon Client. For more VMware Horizon Client versions please click below:

• 5.5.4.26353
• 3.5.2.303972
• 8.10.0.37628
• 4.4.0.6474
• 5.5.2.23300
• 8.3.0.23484
• 5.4.0.10892
• 5.0.0.5596
• 5.4.3.13151
• 8.8.0.33776
• 8.8.1.34412
• 4.7.0.11074
• 8.4.1.26410
• 8.2.0.18176
• 8.0.0.13243
• 4.0.0.727
• 8.11.1.41306
• 5.2.0.7817
• 4.3.0.4209
• 4.8.1.2179
• 5.5.0.14558
• 4.1.0.1487
• 4.6.0.9732
• 5.4.3.13110
• 8.7.1.35568
• 5.5.2.19778
• 4.9.0.2862
• 3.5.2.30397
• 5.1.0.6807
• 8.4.0.24146
• 4.8.0.1562
• 3.3.0.25749
• 5.4.4.14214
• 3.2.0.24246
• 4.10.0.4272
• 3.5.0.29526
• 3.4.0.27772
• 8.11.0.40557
• 3.2.1.27883
• 5.4.2.11170
• 8.12.0.43490
• 8.12.1.44700
• 5.5.1.17068
• 8.1.0.15949
• 8.6.0.29364
• 5.5.3.24986
• 8.5.0.26981
• 5.2.0.5827
• 8.3.0.21227
• 5.4.3.12597
• 3.5.1.30149
• 8.9.0.35399
• 8.7.0.31805
• 4.6.1.9881
• 5.5.0.14198
• 4.0.0.556
• 5.3.0.8987
• 3.1.0.21879
• 4.5.0.8090
• 5.5.6.35225
• 4.0.1.781
• 4.2.0.2831
• 5.5.2.20266

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If you are manually uninstalling VMware Horizon Client we recommend you to check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Folders left behind when you uninstall VMware Horizon Client:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client

The files below were left behind on your disk when you remove VMware Horizon Client:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\cef.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\cef_100_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\cef_200_percent.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\cef_extensions.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\chrome_elf.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\d3dcompiler_47.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\HTML5VideoPlayer.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\icudtl.dat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\libcef.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\libGLESv2.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\locales\en-US.pak
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\natives_blob.bin
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\snapshot_blob.bin
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\swiftshader\libEGL.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\swiftshader\libGLESv2.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\cef\v8_context_snapshot.bin
• C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\x64\webrtc_sharedlib.dll
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\AppIconCache\100\VMware_Horizon_Client
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\prefs.txt

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the keys below:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\EB153FD2C41CF0B4FBD7A393E6B4037D

Open regedit.exe in order to delete the following values:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\EB153FD2C41CF0B4FBD7A393E6B4037D\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\

A way to uninstall VMware Horizon Client using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

VMware Horizon Client is an application by the software company VMware, Inc.. Some computer users want to uninstall this application. Sometimes this can be troublesome because deleting this manually takes some advanced knowledge related to Windows program uninstallation. The best SIMPLE solution to uninstall VMware Horizon Client is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your system, add it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and all around utility to maximize the performance of your PC.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the program by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's design and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of tools.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs tool


5. All the programs installed on the computer will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find VMware Horizon Client or simply activate the Search field and type in "VMware Horizon Client". The VMware Horizon Client app will be found automatically. After you select VMware Horizon Client in the list of apps, some data about the program is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the left lower corner). This explains the opinion other people have about VMware Horizon Client, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the application you want to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for VMware Horizon Client:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.vmware.com
• The uninstall string is: MsiExec.exe /X{0771AA0E-A472-4FCE-A700-EA2982AE1139}

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall VMware Horizon Client.


8. After uninstalling VMware Horizon Client, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of VMware Horizon Client which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling VMware Horizon Client using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and able to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove VMware Horizon Client by VMware, Inc. from your computer, nor are we saying that VMware Horizon Client by VMware, Inc. is not a good software application. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove VMware Horizon Client in case you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.