I said, VMware presents this product as a solution to distribute applications to users, puedean for them to run applications without having to be installed in their posts.įirst of all we have to get off the VMware ThinApp, for them will enter the VMware website: WHO. Thinapp includes VMWare workstation (or used to?) - as the recommended method for creating packages is on a clean machine - and reverting to a clean snapshot to clean up the build PC after each install is easiest this way.I present a new product from VMware, VMware ThinApp is called and its purpose is to distribute applications to users, Streaming applications, new competitor for example Citrix Application Streaming ( WHO). VMware do offer some education discount - Ingenyx are the people we use for our VMWare - they seem quite good at getting educational pricing that some of the bigger box shifters struggle with. There is no need to install any client - but applications can be registered with 'thinreg' so your computer knows about file associations etc.

Using Thinapp is simple - run 'Setup Capture' - to create a baseline - then install the application and any dependancies it may need - run setup capture again to create the changes files - then 'build' the application package.

but some of those 'Nelson Thornes' titles that need the right versions of flash and java work a treat - flash and java can be built into the package negating the need to mess around with a compromise on the OS build to get those picky apps to run. I've thinapped MS Office 2007 - though it works, it is hellish slow to load and move around some of the menus. It is really most useful for small applications: e.g.

I've used Thinapp - it is very good and the latest version will create 'packaged' applications that will often run on Windows 7, though they were created on XP and visa-versa.

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