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  • Disable animations and other gui effects to improve visual experience.
  • Disable unused windows services, in particular indexing service.
  • Disable the usage of pagefiles
  • Disable full disk scans of antivirus  software, if any.
  • Disable software updates (windows updates and others) for volatile guests. The  
  • To give the best possible user experience, the software has to be updated in the template (once per flexVDI platform), and not on every guest, while the users are logged in, and usually at the same time. After installing updates to .Net in the template, it is recommended to leave the computer running for some time (5-25 minutes) until it finishes background processing before converting it to template. You can read more on this here.

You can find more general advice on optimizing guests, and also windows guest optimization tools searching for "optimize your_os_version_goes_here guest performance".