Visio 2010 32 bit on Windows 7 64-bit

[Mercutio879b]

We are running ThinApp ver 4.7.3-891762 on a clean Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise VM.

We are running Windows 7 64-bit on VMWare View 5.2, and these VMs have Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit installed natively. I can't change this, as some of our applications require Word and Excel in their proper positions.

I was tasked with getting Visio onto our View environment, so I decided to try ThinApping it, rather than a native install. I followed this guide:

https://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2013/02/thinapp-microsoft-visio-and-project-2010-while-locally-inst...

But it seems to use Windows XP as the clean machine. Following it anyway, the build completes, but when I run the app, I get an error "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application". It seems that I have something broken, but I have no idea what.

[Mercutio879b · Accepted solution]

If someone finds this, I was able to repair the issue. The linked article above is WRONG if you are capturing the program on Windows 7. Essentially, you only need to follow the guide on VMWare's support site:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&e...

Use the section about 'With Native Office 2010 already installed'. Also, I found that using 4.7.x, you need to capture on Windows 7 32-bit.

Hope this helps someone.