VMware View Client 4.x freeze

When you try to connect to a VMware View Connection broker or VMware View Secure server with a VMware View Client 4.x _(4.0 or 4.5) running Windows 7, the client freeze without any option to cancel or close the window. The only option is to kill the process.

On the application log, a lot of errors or warnings appear about VMware View, like :

• Program C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe, thread 0x160C encountered a machine exception code 0xC0000005 (no DbgHelp.dll loaded)

• backtrace[00] frame 0x0728f670 IP 0x764120fa params 0x7650ac78 0x1 0x1 0x765bb194 ??? [no module data]

VMware View error log

This issue appear since Microsoft publish two new updates. To solve this issue, you have to uninstall these two Microsoft Windows 7 update :

• KB 2482017
• KB 2467023

Then restart the computer.

VMware indicate that they will provide a fix to correct this issue. But it isn't available yet.