Descriptions:
VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application that can create portable applications.
Compatibility
Many Windows applications can be made portable with VMware ThinApp, with the following exceptions:
- Any software that requires a device driver to work
- Software with hardware-based copy protection
- Software is already included with Windows and is not available as a separate package (such as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer)
Recent Changes (18th Sep 2018):
v5.2.4 Build 9964600
Last update 09/07/2018
What's New
- Support for Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update)
- Support for Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 Update)
- Additional modules have been added in this release. You must copy them to the deployment machine in specific cases, as desribed below. The modules are not required during application capture:
- For 32-bit virtual applications which crash at launch on Windows 10, copy the file dummyTLS.dll to the folder C: \ Windows \ SysWOW64 on a 64-bit deployment machine or to the folder C: \ Windows \ System32 on a 32- bit deployment machine
- For 64-bit virtual applications which crash at launch on Windows 10, copy the file dummyTLS64.dll to the folder C: \ Windows \ System32 on a 64-bit deployment machine.
- For 32-bit virtual applications which failed to start when launched from a 64-bit ThinApped application on Windows 10, copy the file dummyNt.exe to the folder C: \ Windows \ SysWOW64 on a 64-bit deployment machine
- One new parameter is available for inclusion in package.ini:
- ReleaseShutdownLocksEarly Setting this parameter to 1 fixes an issue that could cause a process to hang during shutdown.