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Outlook 2010 Beta 2 with ThinApp 4.0.4

Thinstall2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:54:43 GMT

As many probably have read, M$ released Office 2010 Beta 2 public a couple of days ago.

We use Exchange/Outlook 2007 in our organization but an upgrade to Exchange 2010 is ongoing.

I tried to thinapp outlook 2010 to run it sidebyside with outlook 2007.

But I just end up with a self-repair dialog immediatly after the profile has been setup.

First I thought the error could be solved by following this blog article http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2008/10/how-to-thinap-1.html adapting it to office14.

But it didn't.

I packed on a clean win xp sp3, no vmware tools or dotnet runtime etc. Anyone succeded in this?

Any ThinApp + VMware View Desktop + HP T5545 Linux Client.

IamTHEvilONE — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:25:00 GMT

Has anyone used this combination before?

View Connection Manager 3.1.1
Desktop Pool is running Windows XP SP3.
Connecting with HP T5545 running HP M5ST0031 image.
We also have VMware View Client 3.1 Rev. A release 11 Sept 2009.

All I am looking to know is if you have used Caps Lock before with a ThinApp. I need to know if there are any "anomalies".

Regards,

EvilOne
VMware vExpert 2009

NOTE: If your problem or questions has been resolved, please mark this thread as answered and award points accordingly.

Packaging IE 6 as a published application

pSHAF — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:38:40 GMT

Hello.

My manager asked me if were possible to use Thinappto create a packeage to deploy IE 6 (pre configured with a specific URL) as published application.

Our users use a proprietary web based application that only works with Internet Explorer version 6. This is rather limiting as it prevents the desktop team from upgrading their desktop images to a newer version of IE or another borwser altogether.

Can Thinapp accomplish this or any opther VMWare product for that matter?

Regards,

PShaf

Outocad 2010 With ThinApp

michaelhannazaki — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:09:47 GMT

Alot of problems with capturing Outocad2010

the problems starts with the program cannot copy nativeiamge from the windows assembly and then with building the project

please help

can you upgrade an old thinapp to thinapp 4.0.4

cryton2707 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:46 GMT

I have some apps I did on an older version of thin app..
so they dont work on windows 7. I no longer have the package to just re compile, So Id have to repackage again.

There was mention at vmworld this year of having a tool to upgrade the older thin apps to the new version of thinapp that would
be windows 7 compatible.

Any one know of this tool or how I can take an older thinapp package and upgrade it to 4.0.4.xx and hopefully get it working on win 7 without having to repackage the app!

cheers

Sandbox AppSync update question

BrujaHa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:09:15 GMT

I've been testing AppSync the last few days and I'm having one issue I am unable to reolve. It appears it doesnt' maintain my exisiting sandbox.

I'm able to get firefox 3.0.15 to upgrade to 3.5.5 but while I've enabled "AppSyncClearSandboxOnUpdate=0" it maintains none of the user settings. No bookmarks, themes, etc.

Both packages share the same primary data container name.
Both packages share the same sandbox name.

What am I missing? Everything else is working as expected.

Thanks

Outocad 2010 With ThinApp

michaelhannazaki — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:15 GMT

i want to thinapped outocad2010 i have aproblem with its dependancies

Error: GetFileAttributes for file C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware ThinApp\Capture
s\AutoCAD 2010 - English\%drive_C%\Autodesk\AutoCAD_2010_English_Win_32bit\x86\a
cad\Program Files\Root\Common Files Folder\Autodesk Shared\AdLM\R1\cs-CZ\help\BR
W\files\WS1a9193826455f5ff-150b16da11960d83164-15a5.htm failed?

i always get this messagewhile buliding the project

Adobe CS3 Design Premium and FlexNET woes...

gojensen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:06:44 GMT

Hi, back again... after sorting out the .MSI and CAB issues I've suddenly run into a new problem. We have the Design Premium "bundle" (which means there's no way for me to not install all the extra bloat Adobe forces on us) and it uses a FlexNET service for licensing (I believe).

Here's my issue,

I installed it, thinapped it, built it and ran it. All worked fine.

I then use the MSI to distribute the software to my users... which is where the problem comes into play...

Apparently, the ThinApp can't register/run/verify/whatever the licensing service as a USER.

If I make my users local Administrators all the Adobe CS3 thinapps run just fine.

If a normal non-privileged user (or power user) tries to run any of the Adobe CS3 thinapps it fails. (Licensing for this product has stopped working... please reinstall or contact administrator).

Any ideas?

Office 2007 problem

Vitaly91 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:58:24 GMT

Guys,

I am pretty new to ThinApp but I have followed instructions on virtualizing Office 2007 using ThinApp. I got my package build and then installed it on a laptop.

Laptop runs 64-bit WinXP. Office 2007 is a 32-bit.

Here's my issue: when I launch Outlook, I see Windows Installer screens that is "configuring Office 2007". It runs it several times and eventually goes away. Same thing happens when I send an email.

What do I need to do to fix this as it is highly annoying?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Simfatic Forms hangs when ThinApped

gojensen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:16 GMT

So, I've been trying to ThinApp Simfatic Forms 3 (http://www.simfatic.com/). Seems to work fine, untill one opens a new project - whence it hangs.

Has anyone tried this? It's captured on Windows XP SP3 (and tested to work during the capture process) using ThinApp 4.0.3.

Rebuilding it using ThinApp 4.0.4 generates an error instantly after ThinApp loads the program

AppName: simfaticforms.exe AppVer: 3.0.5.175 ModName: unknown
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00000000

Looks like it didn't take kindly to being virtualized...

ThinApp doesn't support Window Shell Extension application well?

ThinkTwiceGoogle — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:20:05 GMT

this is the first time i try ThinApp, i tried to capture the installation of TortoiseSVN1.6.6 ,here is what i did:

1. open ThinApp, did a pre installation scan

2. install TortoiseSVN,

3. did the Post installation scan

4. check all the exe files ThinApp find for me (some exe are not selected by default), set TortoiseSVN.exe as the main file conatining data)

5. build file(not msi format, not compressed)

then i uninstall the tortoisesvn, restart my computer , try to run the TortoiseSVN.exe ThinApp has built for me, but there's no tortoisesvn menu entries in the windows explorer context menu. Anything wrong in my steps?

ThinApp Client Only Apps

FROGGYJ — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:55:45 GMT

I have a couple ERP applications (Infor Visual Manufacturing and Sage Business Works), which only install a client side of the app and basically the shortcut target on a users desktop would point to \\server\share\app.exe. The problem I have when I try to execute this thinapp I get the following unrecoverable error: Unable to open \\server\share\app.exe

I'm not sure if apps like this can be thinapp'ed? I have had success with several other apps which do a full local install, but these two bring new challenges. Any help is appreciated as I'm brand new to the ThinApp world, but loving it so far!

Manage Add-ons within IE

gpollara — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:54:43 GMT

My question is can managed add-ons within IE be Thinapped and streamed across the network.

Perfect example is Flash v10.

Just a little background. In my office we are using VMView with Linked Clones. The pools are configured to use persistent settings so the same user hits the same box when signing back into View. Well not everyone is using Flash and we want to run these Pools as lean as possible (pretty bad when you start targeting IE add-ons). But if the user goes to a site that needs it then it will pull that add-on across the network.

Any help is appreciated,

VCenter

Virtualizeit — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:42:59 GMT

I just loaded ESX server and then I loaded a client to attach and download the sphere client and then I installed the vcenter on that client but I can't create the datacenter that I could the last time I did it I just don't have any options but inventory. I did this a few days ago and had no problems so any help would be great.

Windows update breaks some ThinApp packages ?

arodulr — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:51:28 GMT

Hi,

Today, my Adobe Reader 9.1.3 ThinApp package doesn't work anymore!
details:

ThinApp 4.0.3.3313
captured on Windows XP SP3 (32 bit) VM
was working yesterday!
some Windows update got installed yesterday ( I think they are one week older but I was in hollydays so the computer was turned off)
package still works on Windows XP SP3 (32 bit)
package doesn't work any more on Windows Vista x64 with a standard user account (but it still works with admin account!)
I get a "Runtime error" by the C Runtime Library
I tried to rebuild the package and I still get the same error
I tried to execute it on a previous Windows Vista x64 image where last update were not installed, and package works again!

So I'm pretty sure an update to the OS broke something, but I'll have to check each one to see which is culprit.

Can anybody confirm that ?
I hope upcoming 4.0.4 version will solve this!

thanks
Alban

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tanmic — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:11:14 GMT

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Autodesk DWG Trueview 2010

prantiC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:07:43 GMT

I'm trying to ThinApp Autodesk DWG Trueview 2010.
Unfortunaly I have some problems with it and can't get it to work properly.

First of all I installed all the prereqs for this program:
Visual C++ 2008 SP1
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 + Family update
MS XML 6.0 CHECK
WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86
DirectX (available via the installation image Autodesk\DWGTrueViewx86InstallImage\support\DirectX)
nlsdl.x86 (Autodesk\DWGTrueViewx86InstallImage\support\NLSDL)
WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86

After that I make a setup capture of the DWG Viewer 2010.
When creating the project I get the following error:
Could not copy file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngenrootstorelock.dat -> T:\DWGTrueviewer\Capture2\%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngenrootstorelock.dat
Could not copy file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\ngenservice_pri1_lock.dat -> T:\DWGTrueviewer\Capture2\%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\ngenservice_pri1_lock.dat

The programs proceeds and the .exe is build correctly. When I launch the application I get the following error:
This version of DWG Trueview was not installed properly and some features may not run correctly. You should reinstall DWG Trueviewer immediately to make sure all featueres are working properly. Do you wish to continue anyway?

When I click yes to proceed anyway the application starts. Next time I start the application I didn't receive an error.

Someone knows how to capture this program properly?
When you need to have more info about my steps or settings please ask me I will be happy to provide them

Visma SPCS Adm. 200

Thinstall2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:18:59 GMT

I've packed Visma SPCS Administration 200 ver. 4.5.

It's seems that there is either a bug in ThinApp or in the software.

First of some buttonicons didn't show up in Visma when virtualized, but this was solved by ExternalDlls=comctl32.dll (the function ImageList_Render failed when virtual).
But now Im not able to create new projects. I get no errors but the app isnt able to create new apps.
The app (spcsadm.exe) does a loop and checks in in "c:\spcsfiler\" if a folder called FTG1 exists.
If it doesn't it throws up an "new project"-dialog and asks for verification of creatign the project c:\spcsfiler\FTG1.

If it on the other hand finds this directory, that is, if the project already exists it checks for FTG2 and then FTG3 and so on upp to FTG999.

Natively it works. But when i run it in thinapp it for some reason keeps incrementing its loop.
Since it doesn't play with many other runtime files (its most spcsadm.exe talking with kernel32.dll and ntdll) I dont have much to play with.
I've tried most possible flags in package.ini without result, even ExternalDlls=kernel32.dll wich obviously didn't work.

So either the developers at Visma reacts on an stupid exception from kernel32-api that they shouldn't or the VOS api for kernel32 don't answer the same way as the native.
Anyone? Any ideas greatly appricieated. Here are a small bit of log from what happens when the process looks for the foldername until it gives up and starts looking FTG2* instead. (*=begins immediatly after the last line here)

026328 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d1b->kernel32.dll:7c81399c GetFullPathNameA+ (LPCSTR lpFileName=*12D778h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", DWORD nBufferLength=104h, LPSTR lpBuffer=*2578ED8h->"\E8h\8FhW\02hPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\Ovnbol\PRM.DBF", *lpFilePart=*12D488h->*7C910222h->"\C2h\04h")
026330 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a1d->ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize (PULONG =*12D2D4h->32h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =32h)
026331 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a1d<-ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize ->long=0h (PULONG =*12D2D4h->19h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =0h)
026333 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a48->ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize (PULONG =*12D2C8h->0h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =2Ah)
026334 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a48<-ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize ->long=0h (PULONG =*12D2C8h->15h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =0h)
026336 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a88->ntdll.dll :7c912bb8 RtlUnicodeStringToAnsiString
026337 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a88<-ntdll.dll :7c912bb8 RtlUnicodeStringToAnsiString ->long=0h (PANSI_STRING =*12D2B4h->struct {USHORT Length=19h, USHORT MaximumLength=1Ah, PSTR Buffer=*1B9A00h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1"}, PCUNICODE_STRING =*12D2ACh->struct {USHORT Length=32h, USHORT MaximumLength=34h, PWSTR Buffer=*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1"}, BOOLEAN ='\01h')
026339 0000 0a74 GetFullPathNameA C:\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1 -> 25 (buf=C:\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1, file_part=FTG1)
026340 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d1b<-kernel32.dll:7c81399c GetFullPathNameA+ ->unsigned long=19h (LPCSTR lpFileName=*12D778h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", DWORD nBufferLength=104h, LPSTR lpBuffer=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", *lpFilePart=*12D488h->*2578EEDh->"FTG1")
026342 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :0097764e->kernel32.dll:7c8101b1 lstrcpynA (LPSTR lpString1=*2578FE8h->"", LPCSTR lpString2=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", int iMaxLength=104h)
026343 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :0097764e<-kernel32.dll:7c8101b1 lstrcpynA ->*=*2578FE8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1" (LPSTR lpString1=*2578FE8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", LPCSTR lpString2=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", int iMaxLength=EBh)
026345 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d5f->kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode (UINT uMode=1h)
026346 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d5f<-kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode ->unsigned int=8001h (UINT uMode=1h)
026348 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d80->kernel32.dll:7c821ba5 GetVolumeInformationA+ (LPCSTR lpRootPathName=*27B4980h->"C:\", LPSTR lpVolumeNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nVolumeNameSize=0h, LPDWORD lpVolumeSerialNumber=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpMaximumComponentLength=*12D48Ch->7h, LPDWORD lpFileSystemFlags=*12D484h->2570000h, LPSTR lpFileSystemNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nFileSystemNameSize=0h)
026349 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d80<-kernel32.dll:7c821ba5 GetVolumeInformationA+ ->int=1h (LPCSTR lpRootPathName=*27B4980h->"C:\", LPSTR lpVolumeNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nVolumeNameSize=0h, LPDWORD lpVolumeSerialNumber=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpMaximumComponentLength=*12D48Ch->FFh, LPDWORD lpFileSystemFlags=*12D484h->700FFh, LPSTR lpFileSystemNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nFileSystemNameSize=0h)
026351 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977da1->kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode (UINT uMode=8001h)
026352 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977da1<-kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode ->unsigned int=1h (UINT uMode=8001h)
026354 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00978777->kernel32.dll:7c813879 FindFirstFileA+ (LPCSTR lpFileName=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", *lpFindFileData=*12D5FCh->struct {DWORD dwFileAttributes=1h, struct ftCreationTime=struct {DWORD dwLowDateTime=0h, DWORD dwHighDateTime=12D620h}, struct ftLastAccessTime=struct {DWORD dwLowDateTime=C4E165h, DWORD dwHighDateTime=27B3E00h}, struct ftLastWriteTime=struct {DWORD dwLowDateTime=116A414h, DWORD dwHighDateTime=1h}, DWORD nFileSizeHigh=8h, DWORD nFileSizeLow=0h, DWORD dwReserved0=12D63Ch, DWORD dwReserved1=C4E165h, char260 cFileName=['\00h', '>', '{', '\02h', '\A4h', '\D6h', '\12h', '\00h', '\08h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\90h', '2', '\FCh', '\FEh', '\08h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\9Ch' .. @%u
026356 0000 0a74 FindFirstFileA 'C:\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1' -> INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE *** failed fs entry not found %drive_C%\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1 fs entry not found %drive_C%\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1 *** parent isolated, skipping system probe
026357 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00978777<-kernel32.dll:7c813879 *** FindFirstFileA+ ->*=*FFFFFFFFh (LPCSTR lpFileName=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", *lpFindFileData=*12D5FCh->struct {DWORD dwFileAttributes=1h, struct ftCreationTime=struct {DWORD dwLowDateTime=0h, DWORD dwHighDateTime=12D620h}, struct ftLastAccessTime=struct {DWORD dwLowDateTime=C4E165h, DWORD dwHighDateTime=27B3E00h}, struct ftLastWriteTime=struct {DWORD dwLowDateTime=116A414h, DWORD dwHighDateTime=1h}, DWORD nFileSizeHigh=8h, DWORD nFileSizeLow=0h, DWORD dwReserved0=0h, DWORD dwReserved1=0h, char260 cFileName=['\00h', '>', '{', '\02h', '\A4h', '\D6h', '\12h', '\00h', '\08h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\90h', '2', '\FCh', '\FEh', '\08h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\00h', '\9Ch' .. @%u
026358 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d1b->kernel32.dll:7c81399c GetFullPathNameA+ (LPCSTR lpFileName=*12D778h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", DWORD nBufferLength=104h, LPSTR lpBuffer=*2578ED8h->"\E8h\8FhW\02hPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", *lpFilePart=*12D494h->*2570000h->"\C8h")
026359 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a1d->ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize (PULONG =*12D2E0h->32h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =32h)
026360 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a1d<-ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize ->long=0h (PULONG =*12D2E0h->19h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =0h)
026361 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a48->ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize (PULONG =*12D2D4h->0h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =2Ah)
026362 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a48<-ntdll.dll :7c9131ba RtlUnicodeToMultiByteSize ->long=0h (PULONG =*12D2D4h->15h, PCWSTR =*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", ULONG =0h)
026363 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a88->ntdll.dll :7c912bb8 RtlUnicodeStringToAnsiString
026364 0db4 0a74 kernel32.dll:7c813a88<-ntdll.dll :7c912bb8 RtlUnicodeStringToAnsiString ->long=0h (PANSI_STRING =*12D2C0h->struct {USHORT Length=19h, USHORT MaximumLength=1Ah, PSTR Buffer=*1B9A00h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1"}, PCUNICODE_STRING =*12D2B8h->struct {USHORT Length=32h, USHORT MaximumLength=34h, PWSTR Buffer=*150358h->L"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1"}, BOOLEAN ='\01h')
026365 0000 0a74 GetFullPathNameA C:\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1 -> 25 (buf=C:\SPCSFiler\Företag\FTG1, file_part=FTG1)
026366 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d1b<-kernel32.dll:7c81399c GetFullPathNameA+ ->unsigned long=19h (LPCSTR lpFileName=*12D778h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", DWORD nBufferLength=104h, LPSTR lpBuffer=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", *lpFilePart=*12D494h->*2578EEDh->"FTG1")
026367 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :0097764e->kernel32.dll:7c8101b1 lstrcpynA (LPSTR lpString1=*2578FE8h->"", LPCSTR lpString2=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", int iMaxLength=104h)
026368 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :0097764e<-kernel32.dll:7c8101b1 lstrcpynA ->*=*2578FE8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1" (LPSTR lpString1=*2578FE8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", LPCSTR lpString2=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1", int iMaxLength=EBh)
026369 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d5f->kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode (UINT uMode=1h)
026370 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d5f<-kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode ->unsigned int=8001h (UINT uMode=1h)
026371 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d80->kernel32.dll:7c821ba5 GetVolumeInformationA+ (LPCSTR lpRootPathName=*27B4980h->"C:\", LPSTR lpVolumeNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nVolumeNameSize=0h, LPDWORD lpVolumeSerialNumber=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpMaximumComponentLength=*12D498h->257E0E8h, LPDWORD lpFileSystemFlags=*12D490h->25707D8h, LPSTR lpFileSystemNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nFileSystemNameSize=0h)
026372 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977d80<-kernel32.dll:7c821ba5 GetVolumeInformationA+ ->int=1h (LPCSTR lpRootPathName=*27B4980h->"C:\", LPSTR lpVolumeNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nVolumeNameSize=0h, LPDWORD lpVolumeSerialNumber=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpMaximumComponentLength=*12D498h->FFh, LPDWORD lpFileSystemFlags=*12D490h->700FFh, LPSTR lpFileSystemNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nFileSystemNameSize=0h)
026373 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977da1->kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode (UINT uMode=8001h)
026374 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00977da1<-kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode ->unsigned int=1h (UINT uMode=8001h)
026376 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :0097884d->kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode (UINT uMode=1h)
026377 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :0097884d<-kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode ->unsigned int=8001h (UINT uMode=1h)
026379 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00978864->kernel32.dll:7c821ba5 GetVolumeInformationA+ (LPCSTR lpRootPathName=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1\", LPSTR lpVolumeNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nVolumeNameSize=0h, LPDWORD lpVolumeSerialNumber=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpMaximumComponentLength=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpFileSystemFlags=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPSTR lpFileSystemNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nFileSystemNameSize=0h)
026380 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00978864<-kernel32.dll:7c821ba5 GetVolumeInformationA+ ->int=1h (LPCSTR lpRootPathName=*2578ED8h->"C:\SPCSFiler\F\F6hretag\FTG1\", LPSTR lpVolumeNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nVolumeNameSize=0h, LPDWORD lpVolumeSerialNumber=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpMaximumComponentLength=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPDWORD lpFileSystemFlags=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, LPSTR lpFileSystemNameBuffer=*0h<null pointer> <bad ptr>, DWORD nFileSystemNameSize=0h)
026382 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00978874->kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode (UINT uMode=8001h)
026383 0db4 0a74 spcsadm.exe :00978874<-kernel32.dll:7c80acaf SetErrorMode ->unsigned int=1h (UINT uMode=8001h)

How does Thinreg work when installing MSI's?

gojensen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:50:51 GMT

We've had some strange occurences of start menu items disappearing and magically reappearing when uninstalling and installing our packaged MSI's. Today I got another strange error as it thinreg wanted to register another .exe file that was not a thinapp application.

So my question then... does ThinReg just try to register ALL .dat and .exe files it can find in the applications install path?

Autocad 2009 FATAL ERROR: Unhandled c0000096h Exception at 246149bh

KingstonUniversity — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:48:59 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to thinapp autocad 2009 and thus far I've had no luck. The isolation mode is set to merged. Also, before i performed the second snapshot i made sure that the autodesk licensing service (AdskScSrv.exe) was stopped. The application build was performed on a completely clean Vmware workstation. When I try to launch the thinapped application on either the machine I did the snashop on, or on anormal machine i recieve the error message FATAL ERROR: Unhandled c0000096h Exception at 246149bh

Autocad 2009 in ThinApp

gcVmWare — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:04:35 GMT

I'm trying to get Autocad Architecture 2009 sp3 to work trough Thinapp. I've done some wrestling with it but the program reacts the same. After the first start i get a fatal error window and the program quits after i click OK.

Anyone here who can give me some hints?

4.0.4 Release date: Nov 9.

ggeldorp — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:13:50 GMT

The next version of ThinApp, 4.0.4, will be released on Nov 9. As with every release, we've fixed a whole bunch of application compatibility issues. The SetupCapture UI has been updated slightly. The 4.0.4 release will not formally support Windows 7, meaning you can't file Support Requests for issues that only occur on Windows 7. However, we do believe that the majority of applications will run fine on Win7 when rebuilt using 4.0.4 (a new capture is not required, just a re-run of build.bat).

Can ThinApp execute apps remotely in the same way XenApp can?

JoeShmoe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:11 GMT

Hi there

New to ThinApp and trying to understand how we might use it to stream applications to desktops from our storage platform

In streaming execution mode does the applciation still execute on a local machine (i.e in memory). In that will the client still require all firewall rules to allow the application to see its back end database?

If we wanted to avoid this and execute the application remotely what would be the best way to do this without streaming the whole desktop (VDI?)

Application folders

No1SkiFreak — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:25 GMT

When creating a portable application a single executable is created. That's great, but how do you create the application to be able to run from a CD?
When I run the portable application folders are created in the same directory as the portable application. Obviously this is not possible when the CD media is read only.

My question...

Is it possible to force the creation of these folders in the user's temporary folder.
If so, how do you do this?

Embeding a ThinApp packaged application into a web page

just2click — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:29:24 GMT

Hi again and thank you for a timely and useful information.

I'm trying to find how (if at all) is it possible to embed a packaged application (for example the browser I've already packaged) into a web page?
Not sure that this is a good direction. What I'm trying to gain is an object/component that I can embed into web pages and will give me a sand boxed part the user can browse web pages without compromising his/hers machine.

Thanks in advance,

-Dror

Adobe Photoshop CS2 does not accept correct activation codes after virtualisation

albin22 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:01 GMT

Hi,

i thinapped Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Win-XP SP2 for testing purposes.

i tried different scenarios:

real win xp machine, virtual xp machine, vmplayer, vmworkstation,

when i start the virtualised photoshop, i get always a message to reactivate it because the license files are invalid, (but my activation codes are correct)

i enter the activation code again, but photoshop does not accept it.

thanks for any help

AppSync using File share

RonIntergamma — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:09 GMT

Hi, I'm using firefox as ThinAppad application

I want to use the AppSync variable to make it updatable. Hereunder I explain what I did so far. I assumes further that just as long the application on the update server is different in date/time is enough to tricker the upload process

I'm using a fileahare on a server which is password protected. With user/password it is accessable.
In the manual is an option mentioned to give in the AppSyncURL the user and password to connect to a server using HTTPS/HTTP

When I use this option in firefox -> http://user:password@doamin.com it works while connecting to a webservice.
When I try this using the command-> file:///user:password@server/share it does NOT work

I don't know if ThinApp uses the straight URL as given at the AppSyncUrl variable but if it does this will not work.

A- If I just try this and use the variabe without usernae:password the application just starts, but nu update takes place and no messages appear.
B- If I put the user:password I do het a message that the application was unable to connect to the server.
C- I also tried manually making a fileshare and the starting the application as in option A, with the assumption that the user ia at that moment allready known, but no update takes place and no message appears

Questions:
Is my assumption correct that the file needs only be different on date/time?
Am I doing things wrong with user:password using file share?

Any help is welcome

Thanks Ronald

Thinapp + local installed program

lschwingler — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:38:55 GMT

New to ThinApp but heres what I got so far:

We have a rather large program installed on numerous PC's that needs to be updated every week or so. Within this program, it sends parameters to a locally installed scanning program which in turns uses a locally installed scanner driver. I've got our large program thinapped to run off a network share, lauch the scanning program, and work fine; but when you try lauching the scanning utility for the 2nd time (never closing the thinapp) the locally installed scanning program errors citing it can't load the scanner driver. I did a merged isolation with sandbox on the local user PC. In the sandbox, thinapp brings files for both the scanning program and scanner driver in.

It seems that once thinapp brings the files into the sandbox and uses them once, they no longer work again unless I close the thinapp, delete the sandbox, and re-launch the thinapp. I truly believe thinapp is where we need go as far as application support but won't get it in the budget till this one works.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Windows-installer problem (paket-internal)

HRZMaint — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:31 GMT

When trying to install (from a paket-internal cmd.exe session) an Outlook-connector into a MS_Offc 2k3 Thinstall-Paket i get the following error (in german):

'C:\DOKUME~1\SSPORL~1.AD\LOKALE~1\Temp\Sun Outlook Connector\sjoc-mapi-services.msi' installiert.
12:38:48 FEHLER: 5351 MAPI-Dienstanbieter für Sun Java System können nicht installiert werden.
12:38:48 MsiInstallProduct(C:\DOKUME~1\SSPORL~1.AD\LOKALE~1\Temp\Sun Outlook Connector\sjoc-mapi-services.msi):
12:38:48 0x00000641 Auf den Windows-Installationsdienst konnte nicht zugegriffen werden. Die kann vorkommen, wenn Sie Windows im abgesicherten Modus ausführen oder der Windows-Installer nicht korrekt installiert ist. Wenden Sie sich an den Support, um Hilfe zu erhalten.
12:38:48 5366 Es wird geprüft, ob MAPI-Dienstanbieter für Sun Java System installiert sind.
12:38:48 5368 MAPI-Dienstanbieter für Sun Java System sind nicht installiert:
12:38:48 Datei 'C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office12
SJMS32.DLL' existiert nicht.
12:38:49 FEHLER: 5351 MAPI-Dienstanbieter für Sun Java System können nicht installiert werden.
12:38:49 FEHLER: MAPI-Dienstanbieter für Sun Java System können nicht installiert werden.

The root-problem seems to be that the "windows install service" could not be accessed during MSI-Install.
Seems to the a thinapp-specfic problem.

Any ideas?

Can AWD View/ViewStation clients be encapsulated as ThinApp

VM_nascent — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:31:54 GMT

We are having problems virtualizing AWD Imaging application (from DST).

1. As a standard install (not as a ThinApp), AWD creates what's "AWD Logon" as a shortcut on the desktop.

2. Once you launch AWD Logon shortcut and authenticate through it, this generates additional shortcuts, based on the user's security access level at the imaging system.

-New shortcuts will by default target for files that are supposed to be located in the C:\

The amounts of shortcuts differ from user to user. So, one user may get 3 shortcuts, while other user gets 10 shortcuts depending on what work, roles, have been assigned by the imaging security administration.

The problem we encounter when virtualizing this app, is that encapsulated executable works as expected, and accomplishes the ability to use the AWD Logon, but, the shortcuts generated by the AWD system, will have a target pointing to C:\, and not to a virtualized path. Because target path is not found, causes the shortcuts to fail.

Once again, these additional shortcuts can't be encapsulated as part of the ThinApp package, as these shortcuts are generated at the time the user logs on to application.

Please advise,

IE and Office integration

wrieser — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:24:22 GMT

I have been able to integrate IE applications with Adobe and Microsoft Office using Applink. The problem I continue to have is removing the option to ask before downloading an Excel or Word doc. You can select to not ask before opening which will save while you are logged in but we are using View with non persistent desktops so the option doesn't stick. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks

64 Bit ThinApp apps on XP64?

EricPopoff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:37:49 GMT

We are beginning to set up our View (VDI) environment, and are trying to determine the best strategy for exercising ThinApp...

In the "physical" world, we are an XP64 shop since several of our CAD/Engineering apps require significant memory (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MATLAB, etc...) only available on the 64 Bit OS. This requirement would spill over into our View implementation.

I spent a couple of days trying to ThinApp MATLAB (64 Bit) unsuccessfully before I took a closer look at the System Requirements for ThinApp:

ThinApp does not support the following operating systems and applications:

16-bit or non-x86 platforms such as Windows CE 64-bit applications running on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows operating systems 16-bit applications running on 64-bit Windows operating systems
My boss said that he has talked to VMWare reps who claim that 64 Bit apps CAN be configured to work on XP64 (with a little bit of work)...

Has anyone successfully deployed a 64 Bit app on XP64 using ThinApp?

Thanks,

Eric

Entry point for .Net Framework packages?

EricPopoff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:22:08 GMT

I am ThinApping each of the .Net Framework versions for use as AppLinks in other Applications requiring .Net...

What is the preferred entry point to use for the Framework packages?

Thanks!

Eric

Network performance vs Local launch

regnak — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:10:56 GMT

Hi Folks,

We've Thinapp'd Office 2003 & Office 2007 for a client. After troubleshooting mdm.exe / debugger services causing issues on launch we've gotten the app to run in 3 seconds when launched from a physical windows XP PC or 8 seconds if launched from a Network File Server (Server 2003). We've tried 3 different file servers, both physical and virtual and can't seem to bring down the launch time when it's loaded over the network.

Task Manager shows a CPU hit in both cases for most of that launch time, Network activity is around 12% max.

Can anyone give me a benchmark launch time for streaming Thinapp'd Office 2003 or 2007 over a LAN (gigabit ethernet)? I'd like to see if we're getting a good result or we need to take things further with VMware?

Thanks!

Mike

Isolationmode "sb_only"

Thinstall2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:03:26 GMT

I did a sbmerge on a project a couple o'days ago.
It needed a new odbc-source so I included odbcad32.. ill post the complete entrypoint here, its a nice tip

http://Virtual ODBC Administration.exe
Source=%SystemSystem%\odbcad32.exe
Shortcut=<Whateveryourmaincontaineris>

Anywho, the new ODBC-source (user) was then marked with isolationmode "sb_only" in hkcu.txt. When was this isolation mode introduced? (im using 4.0.3)
I thought that then this new odbc-info would only be read if it was located in the apps sandbox (for some reason) but no.
So whats the advantage with sb_only versus Full?

In my case the app had to be locked to a special odbc-source, pointing to a "test-database", therefore its critical that no physical-odbcsettings can be read since the production database looks the same/same credentials.

citrix program neighborhood agent fails due to hight cpu usage

Sundance_BN — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:57:45 GMT

Hiho,

i tried to package the citrix pna version 10.150 to 11.000 but failed to do so. When i start the thinapp'ed pnamain.exe it takes 50% of the cpu resources and stands still. I tried nearly everything with different version of hte pna and thinapp.

Today i tried to package the pn agent with xenocode which does nearly the same as thinapp. And to my surprise the package runs fine. It connects to our citrix server and i can start the given appz from the systray as it should be.

Has somebody else tried this and could give me a hint?

(And thx Jeroen for your earlier attemps to help me. As you can see i didn't manage it ...)

greetz

Sundance

PS: I install the pna with this command line

%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe /I "%SOURCEPATH%\ica32pkg.msi" /qn /l*v "%tmp%\ica.log" ENABLE_DYNAMIC_CLIENT_NAME=Yes ENABLE_SSON=Yes ALLOW_REBOOT=No SERVER_LOCATION=http://%SERVERNAME%/citrix/pnagent_client/config.xml REINSTALLMODE=OUMS CTX_PN_ENABLE_CUSTOMICA=No

%SERVERNAME% is the local citrix server

Running internal applications from outside

just2click — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:09:04 GMT

Hi,

I've been reading and learning into ThinApp in the last couple of weeks.

I'm trying to create a ThinApp package for a web browser (which I already did successfuly)

What I need next is to find a way to transfer a URL that this browser will surf to.

I looked into Log On Scripts but it seems I cannot change the link once it's in the script file.

I'm trying to create a sandboxed browser that I can feed links into.

The next stage would be to have a full-duplex communication between the sandboxed browser and the outside host, meaning that the host can point the packaged browser from the outside and the packaged browser can "report" the outside host that it's location has changed.

I'd be happy to get any pointers, reading materials and samples.

Thanks in advance,

Dror

change sandbox location at runtime

Phobos11 — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:30:07 GMT

I have been testing the North Star beta and I have a question...

Is there anyway to change the sandbox to be used at runtime? (meaning, choosing before loading the thinstalled application)

I'm asking this because I want to use and application from a server on various remote computers and I want to be able to have various users accesing it and use their own sandbox (and preferences, etc), no matter on what computer they run it from. (for example, keep various sandbox on the server and load the chosen one each time, instead of it being machine-dependent on the %AppData% from each one)

context menus

mohankc — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:41:12 GMT

Will Context menus be ever available in future releases of ThinAPP? There are other products out there that support this feature.

Updating a ThinApp application

RCCampbell — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:57:21 GMT

I'm trying to find out if it's possible to apply patches to a ThinApp package. Having used SVS in the past, i'm used to being able to basically 'open' the layer, apply the patch and then close up again and distribute. Is there an easy way to do this with ThinApp without having to repackage the entire application? If so, can someone point me to steps or a whitepaper?

Thanks!

Thinapp version for Windows 7

Jayanand — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:08:50 GMT

Is there any release date for the new version of Thinapp to support Windows 7?. I have tried the latest version 4.0.3 Build Number 3313 (169725) and it is not working.

If there is any Alpha or Beta version then I would like to be a tester.

Virtualizing an app with set configurations

Virtualizeit — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:31:18 GMT

When I virtualize a certain application with thinapp it creates problems because when I install the app I have to enter set configurations. These configurations are network settings that help identify the system on the network so this creates a problem with potability. Is there any way to virtualize with THinapp without having to run the install file and configure the application or any other ideas that could help would be appreciated.

Virutalzied App not working due to having to configure server setting during the install process

Virtualizeit — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:22 GMT

I Virtualized an application that is used for communication and VOIP. I am able to have the system show it is connecting to the network but I am unable to push out templates to the other systems in the network that are up and running. The problem is when I Virtualized it I have to run the install and it has for specific configuration that is uses to communicate with. I think this is the reason why it is not working I try to go into the registry to change things like system name but it still does not work. Is there a way to edit system settings after it is Virtualized for an application so it does not have all the same settings as the initial package.

URGENT: thinapp questions

prantiC — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:32:08 GMT

I have a few questions about thinapp in an enterprise network. Hopefully someone can help me with a few of this questions: (plz this is urgent because I have to go to a thinapp project really quick)

1. What is the best way to deploy the thinapped package to a laptop user? (I think deploying the full executable to the laptop and then thinreg the executable locally with a logonscript)

2. What is the best way to setup the sandbox in a big envoriment?

3. How is the link made that Outlook (locally installed) can open attachement with e.g. adobe reader (thinapped)

4. What is the percentage of applications that can be thinapped in a enterprise enviroment?

5.Does somebody knows where to find best practices for thinapp in an enterprise enviroment?

6. Is the license packaged in the thinapp executable? What happens when the license expires? Every package has to be thinapped again? Or is it possible to use an enterprise license which is valid till 2050 or something?

is the portable thinapped safe ?

andi888 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:22:48 GMT

I'd like to make my app to be thinapped so it can be portable.
my app deploy some license of its own.
what I need to know is :
if I copy the portable thinapped (only the exe files, the cmd.exe, and maybe the regedit.exe, but the definitely not package before built), and then register it on their computer,
is there anyway for the user to merge this thinapped app with the registry (or registry.rw.tvr, or anything) in their computer ? cause this would raise a big issue for me..

I have tried to search this for awhile, and it seems that to merge the thinapped app with the new files/registry/the used thinapped app/anything in the new computer, I would need to use sbmerge.exe and that means that I have to have the package before built. But just in case, I think I should ask here in forum where expert users of thinapp (or maybe even the programmer of thinapp) reside...

thx.

External Client Access to ThinApp Program

HuskerWebhead — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:29:41 GMT

I'm new to the whole ThinApp/VMWare environment, so sorry if this is a little vague or has been covered already someplace else. I can get any answers you may need or am fine with simply being pointed to the appropriate information. We currently have several applications that we have setup with Citrix that clients are able to access from an external internet connection. We use a Citrix Access Gateway appliance that the clients log into via a web portal and displays the applications they have access to. They can then launch whatever application they need to run. I'd like to move away from Citrix and to a ThinApp solution, but I'm not sure if there is a product out there similar to the Citrix Access Gateway that would allow secured access from external internet clients into our network (DMZ) for access to the applications. What products are out there that we could use? Is there something built into VMWare or would we need a third party software product/device to accomplish this? Thanks in advance!

Scott Jantz

Non functional Internet Explorer 8 capture

jsmiele — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:38:43 GMT

Hi,

I've attempted several times now to create a working capture for IE8 and each attempt has resulted in no success. Most recently I updated everything and captured it which worked for some users and not at all for others. As of recently even those users that were previously able to run it have started to see failures.

Background on this is that I can't run it at all, when I attempt to launch it using my account either it wont launch at all or it does launch and never connects to the internet, it will cycle for awhile and then say that it has recovered a tab and then eventually it will say something like it can't find a connection to the internet. For the users that were able to use it they could open tabs but no new windows and as of late they are experiencing the same results as me.

My capture system is Windows XP SP3 with all available updates, thinapp 4.0.-3313, the capture is run as the local administrator account and the installation works just fine, my end systems are all clones of the same Windows build.

I've seen several posts regarding people not able to open new windows from IE8 and stating that using the latest thinapp release fixed that however this hasn't changed my results. Looking for any advice on what may be happening in the capture. Other people have reported that they are successful in capturing this so obviously there is some way of creating the app successfully.

Thanks,

Functioning of the executable files from Thinapp for different applications

Bamdad63 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:18:29 GMT

Why is that by some applications the executable from the bin folder work while by some other applications, the executable from the %ProgramFilesDir% folder? Has someone experienced this?

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards

Windows 7?

Elias — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:11:05 GMT

As we all know by now, the support for Windows 7 Beta (7000) in Thinapp 4.01 is no go.

Any news about this, not as important for the moment but alot of my customer is in test of W7 now but can't run there Thinapps..

Anyone?

VIrtualized App is not portable to other systems and only works on the system it was captured

Virtualizeit — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:10:42 GMT

I Virtualized a GOV communication program and it would work on the system I captured it on but when I moved the program to another system with the same build it would not work. I then moved it to bare metal and it still would not work. I have captured all the trace logs from both systems and they are all identical and used windif to scan the files and all files are identical according to windif. I was hoping to get any other ideas of what could be wrong it seems like it is a dependecy fro some reason it works on the system it is Virtualized on but not when I move it.

Virtualized app does not seem to work with port

Virtualizeit — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:30:53 GMT

I virtualized a communication app and it does not seem to work. I virtualized the services and they seem to be up and running but it does not connect after it opens. It uses the COM 1 port and I am wondering if I have to configure anything in the package.ini file when I package the application.

How to add new files to portable app ?

andi888 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:19:39 GMT

like the topic,
I have build portable app using thinapp..
but I have a need to add new files into the portable app with ease (as it have to be done by the user that only have little knowledge about IT/computer).
is there anyway to do this without re-build the portable app and do it with ease ??

ps : I know how to update the existing files with ease, but I need to add new files with ease (like just copy the new files to some folders), and not using the built-in cmd (because it would be too much to teach the users to use cmd)

thx

Computer name issues with packaged app

Virtualizeit — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:25:01 GMT

When I package a communication gov app on my system it works fine until I move the package to another system. When that package get's moved to a system with a different computer name it no longer works unless I change the name of the computer to the same name as the system I created the app on. Is there anything I can do regarding computer names or virtual computer names to fix this problem so the app can be portable?

Outllok 2007 Offline address book

HaM1 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:27:48 GMT

Dear all,

I have just thinned Office 2007 and configured Outlook 2007. It works great, exept downloading the offline address book in Outlook from my Exchange Server.

0X800401FE is the reported error number within the sync problems folder.

Does anyone has a clue?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards

Sebastian

how to enable logging so I can compare DLL

Virtualizeit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:35:56 GMT

how to enable logging so I can compare DLL. I am using ThinApp and I am not sure how to enable logging and view the log files. Is there a way to view the log files on a system that does not have thinapp loaded

Add an HKLM key during MSI installation for tracing

marcose — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:05:07 GMT

Is there any way of adding an HKLM key during MSI installation ? I need this to track machines on which the virtual app is installed for audit reasons.

The only way I currently see is to open the msi using a tool like wise and to add the key manually. Is there any other way of accomplishing this ?

Using AppData on a network drive

BritTim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:12:46 GMT

I am having difficulty configuring ThinApp packages that may be an inherent restirction or may be because I am missing something.

For some of my users, AppData is directed via User Shell Folders to a network drive (\\MyServer\MyShare\%USERNAME%\AppData).My problem is that the existing AppData data in the package appears to be ignored and only data on the network drive (if any) is used and updated. Nothing in AppData gets written to the sandbox.

The ##Attributes file in %AppData% in the package specifies an isolation mode of WriteCopy. I do not specify SandBoxNetworkDrives in the package.ini file.

Should I specify SandBoxNetworkDrives=1 in this situation? If so, how can I specify that some network folders should not be sandboxed?

It would probably be possible to avoid the problem by using a roaming profile with AppData inside it, but this involves performance and reliability risks in our case that I would rather avoid.

(ThinApp 4.0.0-2200)

Can anyone point me at a good solution to my problem? Many thanks in advance for any insight.

Virutalzied App not working

Virtualizeit — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:28:45 GMT

After Virtualizing my application which is gov software and not commercial it does not work when I move it to another clean machine. Is there a way I can see what is failing?

ThinApp capture errors

RCCampbell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:03:18 GMT

We're in the process of testing out ThinApp as a potential solutions, but i'm running into a few issues. I've used SVS (Symantec/Altiris) for virtualization before, but am new to ThinApp.

First, when it does the pre-scan, I always get a warning like this:
"RegQueryInfoKey failed for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009"

I can continue through it...but i'd like to know why I get that warning. There are no permission restrictions on that key, and i'm logged in as a domain administrator to a clean box.

Second, after my first 2 attempts at capturing an application I get an error message:
"Unable to write to C:\Program Files (x86)\VMWare\VMWare ThinApp\Captures..................<very, very, very long path here>.........##Attributes.ini"

So, the whole thing fails. Is this due to the path being extremely long? Is there a limitation to file name paths? It is a Microsoft application, so no shocker that referencing a local cache for VMWare and the Microsoft directory on top would get extremely long...but that seems like a very bad limitation.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!

64 bit ?

jambor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:52:11 GMT

Any plans for 64bit applications support ?

AppSync with space in filenames...

gojensen — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:59:17 GMT

We use AppSync to download new updates from our file share... for all apps this is done by

AppSyncURL = file://pd1/AppSync$/app-name.exe

And it works fine... however... If I name the thinapp "App Name.exe" it won't download...

I've tried adding file://pd1/AppSync$/App%20Name.exe but still no go...

The fileshare is on a Windows 2008 server. Any ideas? It's not a big issue, but it's a bit bothersome to remember to rename all packages (they get built and copied via scripts)... and of course it's more "human readable" with spaces...

ThiaApp is not portable

dfeiling — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:43:11 GMT

created thinapp for .net2.0 resulting in single exe file named DW20.exe.

created thinapp for application on host with .net2.0 installed(app will not install without .net2.0)

edited package.ini to include: RequiredAppLinks=DW20.exe

executed build for the application.

the thinapp exe executes fine on the host OSon which it was built, but when moved to another file share the following is displayed.

Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.

If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.

Exception from HRESULT: 0x80110802

What have i done wrong?

ThinApp Name change?

mohankc — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:52:34 GMT

This question is for the Vmware folks - Is Vmware changing the name to ThinAPP Enterprise? If so, can you throw some light why? It's no secret that 4.0.4 is available everywhere on the Internet now. Can you guys, at least now, indicate when we can expect an official release? It is so ironic that you can download the new version from everywhere expect your site.

Virtualized Services

Virtualizeit — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:21:12 GMT

How do I tell if a service that has been virtualize with an app has been started since I am no longer able to look under services.msc to see if it is running.

The return of Outlook Attachement problem With Thinapp

azylis — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:55:36 GMT

Hello,

I have with the actual version of thinapp same problem like Thinstall have One year before. I don't understand why this problem is now on actual version.

When i open attachement on outlook who need an thinapped application (registered with thinreg or manually), Outlook don't open true application.

Same problem like described here :
ttps://thinstall.com/thintalk/viewtopic.php?t=557&highlight=attachment+attachement

Do you have this problem too and solution for this problem ?

Thanks for your replies.

Daniel

Virtualizing a GOTS application that uses three services that are not there once I virutalize the app with thinapp

Virtualizeit — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:27:36 GMT

I am new to ThinApp and I have Virtualized commercial software without any problems but now I am trying to Virtualize a GOTS application that uses three services in windows that are specific to the app and do not show up under services once I virtualize the application and install it on the new VM. I am not sure if this is something that needs to be edited in the package INI file. I don't know much about virtualizing apps that have their own services so any ideas will be appreciated.

...of AppSync, MSI's and limited user accounts

gojensen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:07:21 GMT

We use MS SCCM to deploy all our thinapped applications via their MSI files. This works just fine... apps are installed silently in the background (to shared folder C:\ThinApps) and are available for all users.

All users are regular domain users, i.e. they don't have any administrative or power user rights.

Our problem occours when we deploy an update. This is done by putting the update thinapps on a file share, and having the corresponding AppSyncURL in the packages.

Upon launch it creates the .ASL file (which I presume is the file to see when it last checked for an update) and begins to download an .ASE (which I guess is the new .EXE).

However, since they are regular users ThinApp seems to not be able to replace the original .EXE and we are left with a duplicate .1 file. Which means redundant data storage...

Any way to fix this?

Another issue... if an administrator happens to start an app on these machines the admin created .ASE is unavailable to users, meaning they'll never check for updates(?). Additionally, when run as an admin the files won't be renamed to either .EXE or .1, just leaving the .ASE there.

Any fix to this apart from manually resetting file security information and making any user able to delete any application?

Ansys-12/ Solvermanager.exe

saxionthinapp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:07:10 GMT

Hallo,

I have captured Ansys-12 with Thinapp-4.0.3-3313 on Windows-XP-SP3, when I start Workbench it work normally, but when I close it, one of the services (SolverManager.exe) continues running, therefore I can not start the application again(I don't get any error), and i must kill it first by the task manager then I can start it again. I have asked support by Ansys, but they said that the service is needed for other part of the application and it must be running after closing the application. They said that they do not support virtualization of application

error f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfx\src\mfc\winctrl2.cpp:1311

saxionthinapp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:04:14 GMT

Hallo,

I have captured Timetell 6.3 with Thinapp-4.0.1-2866 on Windows-XP SP2, it works fine , Now when I start the application on Windows-XP-SP3 en then close it. Then i get error (f:\sp\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfx\src\mfc\winctrl2.cpp:1311)
An invalid argument was encountered, i cannot fine exactly what the problem is, does have anybody solution for this problem

ThinApp RequiredAppLinks suggestions are welcome

prantiC — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:29:05 GMT

I'm trying to thinapp Open Office and Java.

First I thinapped Java on a clean machine, then went back to my clean machine and installed java locally. After that I thinapped OpenOffice and in the package.ini I added RequiredAppLinks=\\server\share\Java\bin\javaw.exe

But when I go the client it still asks for java but OpenOffice starts normally. Maybe this is an hard practice for me because I'm new to thinapp and I'm trying to learn it right now.
Does somebody know an easier practive with a program and java? The best practice, I guess, is that when the program misses the java client it doesnt launch at all.
Because then I can test if the programms are linked succesfully or not because now OpenOffice starts normally but I dont know how to test the Java possibilities in OpenOffice...
Hopefully somebody can give me a suggestion for a program!

Scripting Question

gpollara — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:30:25 GMT

If registry key exist (natively) then run the ThinApp. If not then display message box. This way only specific machines will run the application if the key is in let's say

(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ThinApp)
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value) // Value Name: Enable

Setting for Value Data: "N = Disabled / Y = Enabled"

So as long as it is set to "Y" within the registry then the app will continue running. (Only if this key is on the machine before the ThinApp ran)

I'm assuming this would be placed under the "Function OnFirstSandboxOwner" so it would launch right away. Also would I need to change any type of isolation modes in any of the registry files before packaging the file?

Any help is appreciated.

"The data is invalid" and "Signature not found".

arjunsingh — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:55:39 GMT

Hi,

My ThinApp gives error as "The data is invalid" and "Signature not found" when user click on shortcut to launch the ThinApp exe. ThinApp exe is located at server and shorcut is available at client maschine. This error does not happen on every machine only on some machines.

Please any one give me solution to rectify it ASAP.

Thanks

Arjun

applications that call Adobe Reader

wrieser — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:32:41 GMT

I have multiple web applications that call Adobe Reader. The applications and Reader are both thinapp'ed separately. I have been unable to get Adobe Reader to open in a browser window as they will when installed locally on a desktop. Does anyone know how to force the thinapp Adobe Reader to open this way. I have verified the Adobe option to open in a browser window is selected.

The only way I have been able to get this to work is to package Adobe with the web app in the same package.

Thanks for any assistance.

Word 2003 - Cannot Save to UNC Path

Defiant365 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:52:22 GMT

Hey everyone.

Today a user discoverd a very weird problem with Word 2003 SP3 in that users cannot save documents to a UNC Path. I have confirmed it is a problem with ThinApp as I installed a local version of Office 2003 SP3 on the VM. Any ideas? It is throwing that Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error. Any ideas?

Antivirus and Thinapp

BenBrazil — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:37:10 GMT

Hello,

I am evaluating Thinapp and am concerned about AV integration with the product. Is it possible for a desktop machine running the Thinapp streamed appliation to scan the application for viruses. Eg, I have packaged Winrar and replaced the Console RAR Manual text file (RAR.txt) with the eicar.txt file. If I open the file RAR.txt file (which is now actually the contecnts of the eicar.txt file) the AV on my desktop does not detect it. It is only when I try and save that file to the computer that the AV detects the eicar virus and acts upon it. Is it possible for the AV to detect viruses which are contained in streamed packages?

Thanks,

Ben

Service control from ThinApp

davesmith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:49:11 GMT

Hi, I've been reading about the service stuff from the ThinApp manual, and I would can't figure out how to give control of a KEY to be Merged.

I have the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ServiceName key.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt I have put the following:

isolation_merged HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ServiceName

I want anything that thinapp does with that key to be translated to the system, including creating that key, as my software creates the service if it doesn't exist (which I want to run on the system)

How can I do this? Any suggestions? I don't want to virtulize this or anything beneath it. If I have to open up HKLM\Curr...\Services, then I will do that too (If you could let me know the specifics )

Thanks,
Dave

Apply for ThinApp beta?

Thinstall2 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:34:57 GMT

We're using ThinApp for 6000 clients, and some departments are beginning to look at windows 7. At our office we've already there.

Is it possible for us to apply for an early access / alpha/beta/rc candidate? Not for production use of course?

RemoveSandboxOnExit problem

josephine27 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:49:03 GMT

I have just upgraded from ThinApp 4.02 to the latest version 4.03.

It seems that with this new version, the sandbox tends to stay on the system even if I set "RemoveSandboxOnExit =1" in the package.ini file. My application is using .net 3.5, and those assembly files besides other things stay in the sandbox after the application exits.

Does anybody experience the same behavior? Anything I could do to make sure the sandbox is cleaned upon exit?

Thanks.

Restricting ThinApp applications to network only

phsteele — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:51:48 GMT

We want to restrict some ThinApp applications to work only when launched from a network drive. Is there anyway to force a ThinApp exe to work that way? I thought I might be able to do it with a vbscript in the build, but haven't found a way yet. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks!

Fails to build correct .MSI of Adobe CS3 Design Premium

gojensen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:02:44 GMT

I've been struggling with building thinapps off our Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software... I really wanted to seperate each component into smaller thinapps - but Adobe is being a complete ass .

Anyways, I wound up essentially installing all the apps in one go... which resulted in a .DAT of about 1.3gigs (compressed). However, the .MSI was only 18mb which seemed totally wrong, and sure enough it doesn't work.

I've tried to re-run the build.bat and it runs just fine and exits with no errors... but still the flawed .MSI.

Seeing as we need these .MSI's to properly distribute software through our MS System Center I'm kind of at a loss now... anyone got any ideas!?

(Using the official VMware 4.0.3 release) ... Thanks in advance...

Applying SP2 to Offcie 2007 and using Sbmerge to update

roybfr — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:39:36 GMT

I am attemting to update our Office 2007 package with SP2 so that I can
use sbmerge to roll the changes with the inital capture. I opened IE
via iexplore.exe entry point for the app, downloaded the SP and tried
to install it. When the install runs it fails giving an error "the detection failed this can be due to a corrupted installation database". I also tried running the update via the command entry point with the same results. Has anyone had any success applying SP2 to Office 2007 that is a thinapp?

I am at the point where I may just capture a new install with SP2, but was hoping to beable to use sbmerge and the origial package.

How to embed UAC elevation required manifest in EXE

ptr727 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:20 GMT

Hi, I'm evaluating ThinApp.

The main EXE has an embedded manifest that requires UAC elevation on Vista.

The EXE that ThinApp generates does not have the required elevation manifest, thus users on Vista will run the EXE and execution will fail.

How do I tell the build tools to embed a manifest in the final EXE that will require elevation on Vista?

Regards

Forcing only one sandbox?

jkasyan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:23:50 GMT

I have a custom deployed application which is having intermittent issues. The application uses the default Application Data\Thinstall\<sandbox name>. Some users are reporting that they now have multiple sandboxes. <sandbox name>.computername for example. This is actually terrible for my application, as it trys to synchronize that data with a server, and if they have multiple local copies, i'm not sure which one will be utilized.

I've read over the documentation about the sandbox search order. I don't set any environment variables, and my package.ini is the default.

Why would thinapp need to create multiple sandboxes for the same user on the same computer? Is there any way to force a package to use a specific name?

CapturedUsingVersion=4.0.0-2200

Office 2007 Right Click integration

Reave — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:07:28 GMT

After virtualizing Office 2007 Using the instructions at (http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2008/10/how-to-thinap-1.html) with version 4.03 of thinapp I have excellent application performance with the exception that the ability to create documents using right mouse clicks on the desktop doesn't seem to carry over. Is this typical of virtual Microsoft office 2007?

Thinapp'd Office 2007 msi kicks off windows installer during first run when not run on capture machine.

Reave — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:27:34 GMT

I have an office 2007 msi thinapp package that launches the windows installer service on the first run of the application. I will be deploying this msi via Symantec software streaming so having an msi launch from within the package the first time the user runs it is a serious problem.

When the msi of office is run on the machine I use for captures (run at a previous point that is clean) the windows installer does not launch on the first run of the application but any other machine seems to cause office to run windows installer.

The installer never asks to activate the product or offers any prompts and we are using a corporate key so I don't think that it is a license based issue.

When the standard exe of the application is used it works normally.

logs can be found here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1310047/logs.rar

moderator please delete thread

Reave — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:55:30 GMT

Moderator Please delete thread

Communicator 2007 R2

tanmic — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:33:13 GMT

With the previous Communicator 2007 version (not the R2), the only way to thinapp it is to capture it on a W2K environment. The latest version cannot be installed anymore on W2K and when capturing this on XPSP2, Communicator doesn't start up. Did include the VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM=0 in the package.ini which was used for the non-R2 version but this had no effect.

Has anybody successfully thinapp'ed this? Didn't work with the latest thinapp.

Thinapp and Adobe Captivate

horvalb — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:33 GMT

Hello,

Has anybody tried to Thinapp the Adobe Captivate
Software?

Captivate is a screen capturing software.Is there any
chance to thinapp these kind of applications?

The thinapped captivate starts correctly but when I want to
capture the screen the application doesn't responds, and makes the PC hang.

Where can I start the debugging?

Best Regards, Albert

ThinApp & IE6/SP2

yamadaigo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:13:56 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Newbie to ThinApp and just wondering if anyone could provide some help for virtualizing IE6/SP2.

We followed the demo on thinstall.com to get IE6/SP1 on a Win2k VM. Now we are having trouble with IE6/SP2. It looks like SP2 for IE6 is not available as a seperate download, it is actually contained in WinXP's SP2. So just wondering if anyone was able to virtualized IE6 with SP2, and how to get it done?

Thanks!

-Yamadaigo

Can I launch multiple entry points from one ThinApp shortcut?

spence15 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:33:22 GMT

Hi all,

I am packaging an application call Team Viewer. The way the traditional application works is a little strange. It requires that you launch one executable to make use of the software, but an additional executable if you want the management console to run. This is necessary as the management console is responsible for logging and such.

When I package the application using ThinApp I get two entry points. What I'd like to do is create a single entry point that launches both executables at the same time (or in sequence). I'd actually prefer that the management console be opened and minimized but that part isn't critical.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might accomplish this? I tried adding both executables to a single entry point like this:

http://Team Viewer.exe
Shortcut=TeamViewer.dat
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\TeamViewer\Team Viewer.exe
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\TeamViewer\Team Viewer Manager.exe

When I do this no error is thrown, but only Team Viewer Manager.exe is launched. If I change it to:

http://Team Viewer.exe
Shortcut=TeamViewer.dat
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\TeamViewer\Team Viewer Manager.exe
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\TeamViewer\Team Viewer.exe

then only Team Viewer.exe is launched.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

~spence

ThinApp Application and Export to local install of Excel

paraffin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:53:04 GMT

Hello

I am new to ThinApp and have been looking at using it to deploy our application which seems to work very well.

However as usual I have come across an issue where by our software can do a database query and return its results in the application but the user has an option to Export the data to Excel. This works fine obviously if we are using the application installed locally.

However when the export is done through the ThinApp version the export fails and it looks like it is installing Excel or some component.

Please see screenshot in the attached document.

Is this a know issue and is there a workaround or setting I need to switch on?

Cheers
David

Is network scanning supported?

josephine27 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:31:36 GMT

We've installed the network scanner driver on the machine. The regular product works fine with the network scanner, but the USB version does not.

Is network scanning possible with ThinApp? Thanks.

Possible to limit network connectivity ?

MartinDahl — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:53:15 GMT

Hi,

is it possible to set a list of network locations to which a Thinapp is only allowed to connect, or prohibited to connect ?

For example a thinapped browser which can only connect to Wikipedia, or an ftp client that can only connect to certain IP's ?

Thanks

ThinApped Weblogic Poor Performance

SS73 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:55:41 GMT

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with Weblogic 9.2 or 10.3. We have packaged them for use in VDI and are noticing they run 50-60% slower. Slowness occurs during server starts and publishing of web pages.

Are there any options in the package.ini that address application performance?

thx in advance.

office97 application

jcianciol — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:13:49 GMT

question......the application works good after my build but my question is about the graphics on the splash pages.......

they are very "grainey" not the usual full color. Is this just the way it is or is there some setting i can do in thinapp to fix

this.

thanks!

jim

Autodesk Utility Design 2006 licensing service thinapp problem

JoshuaMSG — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:15:46 GMT

I am having trouble capturing AUD 2006 installation. Works fine with regular installation - when thinapped, gives licensing error. Seems like licensing service is not started - but it is. Have tested on many different versions of windows(same results). Has anyone successfully captured this version of Autodesk?

Using Thinapp to install a program that uses an access 97 database

simplygenius — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:36:39 GMT

I'm trying to use Thinapp to install a program called Checkmaint and I'm not having the best of luck. I'm very new to the virtual machine world so bare with me as I try to explain what I'm trying to do and what I'd like to have happen. Checkmaint uses an access 97 database and so does another program that we need to install on the same machine. Somehow they're not working well together so I'm trying to run Checkmaint via Thinapp. So far I've done a clean install of Windows XP SP2 and installed the Thinapp client. I then ran the capture procedure and as it instructed installed the program when it asked. From here I've tried a few different things after completing the capture.

1. I tried to uninstall the program and reload with the .msi that was created during the capture process. I attached a sample database which worked great until I closed the program down. When I tried to reopen Checkmaint again (the Thinapp created Checkmaint) I received the message: You can't open 'C:\Program Files\Checkmnt\Checkmnt.mde' for exclusive use because another user has the database open. CheckMaint will open the database for shared access. Then I have the option to press ok. I can make deletions now but I can't make changes or add new tasks when it's shared.

2. I left the original Checkmaint installed and also installed the .msi that was created during the capture. Then from here a did pretty much the same process and got the same results.

Neither of these worked and I'm kind of at a loss as to where I should go next. Some things I've noticed that I'm not will help or not. When installing Checkmaint, it creates the folder C:\Program Files\Checkmnt, and this is where all the database files get saved. When installing Checkmaint via Thinapp it creates the folder C:\Program Files\Checkmaint (VMware ThinApp) and in this folder there's the .exe to run Checkmaint, msaccess.exe, repair and compact.exe, and wrkgadm.exe.

I'd be happy to provide more information or try any suggestions that anyone might have. Thanks for your help and if I've been too vague or gave wrong info please let me know.

Ok ,the application named GNS3 when you package it ,it wont run ,but if running from inside %ProgramFilesDir% it runs !!!

MrBean344 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:12:39 GMT

Hi all, as my title is self explanatory many applications wont run if they are packaged,but amazingly they do run if you dont package anything and run the .EXE from within the %ProgramFilesDir%, and the well known application called GNS3 is a good example of what I am saying . Am I missing something ? thanks for every help.

ThinApp Consumes All Memory

Defiant365 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:23:02 GMT

Hey everyone.

I have ThinApped Office 2007 with IE 7 and Adobe Reader. When launch IE7 and create 4 tabs, open up Word 2007 and have 2 documents open, open up an excel document and one pdf document, I consume almost all memory and my page file. I even start to get memory errors in IE 7 if I open up another tab.

Why is ThinApp using almost all of the memory? This presents an issue on VDI, as the machine only has 768 MB of RAM. It just seems like this is not right, that I did something wrong. Any ideas? Suggestions?

Thanks

using asset discovery tools to meter usage of thinapps

hutjo03 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:37:19 GMT

is it possible to meter usage of thinapps deployed to the desktop? my understanding is vmware thinapp is clientless, serverless and self contained within the virtual application. How would/could discovery tools detect a desktop user starting a virtual OR a streaming app?

thank you