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Using the ThinApp Setup Capture wizard to virtualize an application (1019489)

Last Updated: 3/29/2024Categories: How toTotal Views: 23334Language:
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This article describes how to use the ThinApp 4.5 Setup Capture wizard to virtualize an application. The Setup Capture wizard is the user interface for the snapshot.exe command. An embedded video provides an alternative to reading the text.

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Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DiDEJpXPk

The Setup Capture wizard has five stages for creating a virtualized application:

Prescan

Installation

Postscan

Configure

Build

When you finish the process of virtualizing an application, you can deploy the virtualized application to users on a network share or on USB keys, or directly to users' desktop computers. When users double-click the virtualized application, it runs instantly, with no installation required.

To work through the Setup Capture wizard:

Open ThinApp Setup Capture and click Next.

During the Prescan stage, ThinApp takes a snapshot of the file system and registry on your clean machine. Use a clean machine with no other applications or libraries installed.

You can click Advanced scan locations to specify particular file system directories and registry keys for the Setup Capture wizard to scan.

Click Prescan on the Ready to Prescan window when you are ready to proceed.

After the prescan, you are ready to install the application you are virtualizing. During the Installation phase, minimize the Setup Capture wizard while you install the application you want to virtualize.

For example, you can virtualize Opera. Launch the installer file and install the application for a typical user.

Note: If rebooting the computer is required as part of the application installation process, it does not interrupt the capture process. The Setup Capture wizard continues the capture after the computer reboots.

When you complete the installation, start your application to check that it installed correctly. You can also customize the application for your end-users. For example, in Opera, you can set the default home page and proxy information for your corporate environment.

When you finish customizing the application, close the application and return to the Setup Capture wizard by maximizing the window.

You are now ready for the postscan stage. A reminder appears about installing the application. Click Postscan when you are ready for the post-installation scan.

In the Postscan stage, ThinApp takes another snapshot of the file system and registry. ThinApp then compares the post-installation snapshot to the pre-installation snapshot.

After the postscan, you can configure the virtual application. Entry points are the application executable files that ThinApp generates during the build process. By default, ThinApp selects the entry points that the installer generated. You can modify this list and select optional entry points for troubleshooting purposes.

Click Next.

By default, everyone can use the virtualized application. You can limit access to specific Active Directory groups. Restrict access if required.

You can also change the Access denied message for users who are not permitted to use the application.

Isolation mode sets permissions for users to read from and write to the physical computer that runs the virtualized application. Full write access allows users to write to all non-system directories. Restricted write access allows users to write to only the Desktop and My Documents directories.

The isolation mode that you select in the wizard determines where users can write to on the physical computer when they use the virtual application. ThinApp creates a Sandbox directory that stores redirected data that users cannot save to other locations on the computer.

Each time a user restarts the virtual application, the Sandbox provides access to the user's application data. Select where to locate the sandbox for application data.

VMware is building a database of anonymous statistics about applications that you virtualize. In the future, this data will help you to plan the migration of your applications to ThinApp. Your data is not shared with anyone else. Select Yes if you want to send anonymous usage statistics to VMware.

Click Next.

The Inventory name is the name for your virtual application's project folder and Sandbox directory.

The Project location determines where ThinApp saves the results of this capture process. Click Browse to choose a different location.

Click Next.

The Primary data container is the main data file for the virtualized application. Each entry point uses essential files in the primary data container. You can place the primary data container within one of the application entry points or in a separate DAT file.

Select Generate MSI package to easily deploy the virtualized application to remote desktops and to create shortcuts and file type associations on those desktops.

You may select Compress virtual package to reduce the size of the application on disk.

Click Save to save your configuration settings.

You may click Edit Package.ini or Open the project folder to further customize your project.

Click Build to generate executable files for this virtual application.

You can view the executable files in the build folder after clicking Finish.

The bin folder contains executable files that you can deploy to end-users with standard deployment tools.

The default folder for the executables is: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\Captures\application_name\bin.

Page last reviewed: May 2023
Next review due: November 2023

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For more details on how to use ThinApp Setup Capture, see the ThinApp User's Guide.

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