Hello,
I tried to uninstall the View agent 5.3, but the installer hanged on stopping services... portion. Looking at the services.msc, the Horizon View Composer Guest Agent server service was still running. Trying to stop the service manually results in the prompt to stop a dozen more services related to OS. Looking at it, I found that View Composer Guest Agent server has inserted itself as a dependency for BFE, Netlogon, and TCP/IP Protocol Driver services, which also, in turn, makes every services that are dependent on those three services to be dependent on View Composer Guest service.
I am seeing this behavior all the way up to 6.0.2 Agent (not sure about 6.1 Agent). Why is View Composer service inserting itself as a dependency for critical OS services? I mean, really VMware? REALLY??