Fortunately we've made progress since Thinapp 5.2 enables support for Windows 10, however every package that we've rebuilt with Windows 10 has the same issue. It can take anywhere from 1 minutes to 3 minutes to actually open. Once open, the application appears to function normally.

Is anyone else seeing this? I can't seem to find any posts regarding this issue but for us its happening on physical and virtual windows 10 machines.

I haven't tried to fully repackage an application on 5.2 yet but hoping that won't be required.

Any advice would be appreciated, if not then I'll go ahead and see if we can start a ticket on it.

Has anyone tried to thinapp ClickOnce apps?  I support and deploy thinapps over a large global network via Citrix.  Due to some policies in place, users can't install ClickOnce applications directly on the Citrix farm.  So, I've been tasked with trying to get this to function via thinapp.  I've tried to create a few streams for specific clickonce apps, but when we open them from the thinapp stream, the app does nothing.  It basically just closes out.  Is there an isolation setting on particular folders within the stream that needs to be set?  I've set the stream to write copy, merged, and full isolation.  Let me know if any of you have had any success thinapping clickonce apps, and if you have any tips on doing this.  Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I have captured an application but when I start it I got the error:

Missing Import C:\Windows\system32\ucrtbase.dll->kernelbase.dll:CreateProcessA

This dll is in the package at %SystemSystem%.

When I use the package entry externaldll:ucrtbase.dll then the error "shifts" to another dll.

Please can anyone give me a hint whats going wrong?

TIA

[Best Practice] VMware ThinApp 5 and Office 2013

Ever since I got my hands on ThinApp 5, I've been trying to thinapp Office 2013. I've tried it in various ways and I think I should give something back to the forum by sharing my experience.

I captured Office 2013 by following this guidebut also did some tweaking and tuning by myself.

Let's start!

1. Extract the Microsoft Office 2013 installation files.
2. Edit the config.xml file located in the suite.WW directory where suite is the suite of Office you are installing. i.e. for professional plus it's proplus.ww
3. Add these lines to the bottom of the file above </ Configuration>
   • For KMS licensing activation:
     
     <Setting Id="KMSSERVICENAME" Value="kmsserver.domain.com"/>
     <Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1"/>
     
     Note: Replace kmsserver.domain.com with your KMS server name.
     
     
   • For MAK licensing activation:
     
     <PIDKEY Value="AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE"/>
     <Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1"/>
     <Setting Id="USEROPERATIONS" Value="1"/>
     
     Note: Replace AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE with your MAK information.
     
     
4. Run the Setup Capture wizard and take a prescan.
5. If the deployment operating systems do not all have the same version of .NET installed, capture .NET. For more information, seePackaging guide for .NET (2069188).
6. Start the Microsoft Office 2013 setup wizard.
7. Click Customize for the type of installation.
8. Click Microsoft Office> Run all from My Computer or do your own customization and choose the specific tools you want to install.
9. Click Install Now.
10. Launch an Office component, disable auto updates, run through the welcome assistant and do any other customization.
    • For faster startup of Excel, Word and PowerPoint, do this:
      • Go into options of each application
      • Untick the option "Show the Start screen when this application starts"
        
    • Note: When you start an office application it will log you on with the windows account you're currently working with which in my case was the domain admin.
      This shouldn't bother you at this point as I will you show you how to get rid of this later on.
      
11. Stop the OSPP service.
12. Take a Postscan.
13. If required, modify the Inventory name.
14. Open the file HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt and edit it as shown:
    • Add to the bottom of the file:
      
      isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsSearch\Preferences
      Value=PreventIndexingOutlook
      REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00"
      
      
15. Now, to remove the admin account open the file HKEY_CURRENT_USER.txt and edit it as shown:
    1. Search for common\identity
    2. If you want to remove the account and also prevent your users from logging in with their AD accounts, do this:
       • Delete all lines that have to do anything with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity
    3. If you just want to remove your "setup account" but keep the ability to let your users log in, do this:
       • Delete all lines and that have anything to do with your "setup account" but keep these:
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity
           Value=Version
           REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00
           Value=FederationCacheExpiration
           REG_SZ~2014-02-27T09:49:34Z#2300
           
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\DocToIdMapping
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Identities
         • isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Profiles
       • I've attached a before and after file example for further explanation
         
16. Build the project.

There's one thing though I haven't been able to work out.

Whenever I add a required applink in the file Package.ini, Office fails to start any application. Instead, a screen pops up where Office tries to install an "Office Feature" but fails to do so and then just quits.

Has anyone been able to add applinks for Office 2013?

Regards

Marius

hi

I don't understand to  upgrade the Captured Applications, for example:

I captured Adobe Reader 8 (
share\Thinapp\Adobe Reader 8), now users work with Adobe Reader 8.

Now I would captured Adobe Reader 9. Where I must copy the Adobe Reader 9 folder?

I have try these folders, but it don't work:

share\Thinapp\Adobe Reader 9

share\Thinapp\Adobe Reader 8\Adobe Reader 9

share\Thinapp\Adobe Reader 8\Adobe Reader 9.1

share\Thinapp\Adobe Reader 8\Adobe Reader 9.a

PS: Sorry for bad English

Thank you

My question is about the program Just Gesture which require net framework 3.5 to run. How to package the program so it will run on my OS, which is Windows xp, without installing net framework 3.5?

Thanks!       

Hi there,

I registered for thinApp trial version, received a acces your VMware ThinApp email from VMWARE : When I try to download, nothing happen !!

Tried many time to click on the button : Manually download

Thanks for your help

Hi guys

I am having an application which runs with an Access frontend (*.mde) and has in the background an oracle database.

Up till now the software was only compatible with access 2003 and we had the following installations thinapped:

- Access 2003

- Oracle Client

- Oracle ODBC Connection

- some regkeys

Now the application is compatible with access 2016. Access 2016 is installed on our base image, so we don't need to thinapp access 2016. We only need the Oracle Client, ODBC Connection, Regkeys... but the entry point has to be Access.

For example:

[XYZ.exe]

Source="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSACCESS.EXE"              (--> also tried it with %programdir% variable)

WorkingDirectory=\\Server\Share

CommandLine="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSACCESS.EXE" /runtime "\\Server\Share\Access.mde

Shortcuts=%Desktop%

But at the end of the build process I get the Information that it can't find %programdir%\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSACCESS.EXE"

I guess it's looking for this path into the capture folder and not on the physical machine. How can I make this working or is it not possible?

The [Isolation] is set to: DirectoryIsolationMode=Merged

Kind regards

llips

Hi all

Ive had issues for a while with my Visio 2013 thinapp not always launching correctly due to licencing issues.

Ive been doing some more digging and see that the Exe file for the thin app launches twice on clicking the icon(Seen in taskmanager.

It then launches the .dat file.

When the thinapp works as expected it opens and 1 of the .exe files has gone if it crashes both remain running in task manager.

I take it with everyone elses thin app you should only see 1 of the exe files on launch ?

Regards

Sam

Since we have installed the McAfee Endpoint Encryption for File and Folders function, the Thinapp Applications

hang by the function open file.

File open hanging 60 - 120sec.

Or rightclick on a file or folder in the file open dialog.

Uninstall the EEFF and reboot the System. All runs ok.

Thinapp 4.7.2

Windows 7 Pro

McAfee EEFF 4.0.0

andr

McAfee EEFF 4.0.1

We have this problem on all Thinapp Applications with file open function.

Thanks

Mark

Hello,

We have tried packaging Paint.NET but it did not work. We used a clean virtual machine while doing that but the resulting .exe file does not even work on the virtual machine although Paint.NET works on it.

.NET is packaged together with Paint.NET. The error is:

"Missing Import C:\Prpgram Files\paint.net\SxS\X86\ucrtbase.dll -> kernelbase.dll:CreateProcessA"

We have also tried copying .dll files in different directories but it is still not working.

Thanks in advance.

Note: Same problem with TortoiseSVN.

Does anyone have Acrobat Reader 11.0.09 created as ThinApp? When i click the new big "Open" button i get an error message. This should open a Acrobat.com Explorer.

ERROR:

COMDLG32.dll missing on the computer. Install the program again to correct the problem

Installed on Windows 7 x64 blank with ThinApp 5.1.0 or ThinApp 5.0.0

The same error also comes at Windows XP blank with TinApp 5.1.0 or ThinApp 5.0.0

Someone has a solution?

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

P.

Just downloaded the eval on Thin Application and everytime I run the capture program I get the capture is infected with the Trojan horse Generic 16 BLFO.

Can someone please help me with this?

Thanks...

Ken...

Hi everyone,

we're experiencing a problem with the thinapp of Firefox; since Mozilla Firefox 49.0, the thinapp process of the packaged application kills after a couple of seconds after starting the entrypoint. The problem occurs in 49.0 and 49.0.1 (x64).

We ran LogMonitor but couldn't identify the problem.

I copied he most important entries in the trace file into the end of this discussionentry.

Does anyone encounter the same issues?

And if so, and when solved, what was the solution to the problem?

Does anyone have an idea to the solution?

Jousma

1st terminate in logmonitortracefile:
000169 00137814353763 2a38 02b8 ????????????:0000000077810a62->????????????:0000000077a6bb80 NtCallbackReturn (PVOID =*2D5FA40h, ULONG =18h, NTSTATUS =0h)
000171 00137815555249 2a38 02b8 ++++ Prior function NtCallbackReturn did not terminate properly -- possible exception

1st failed:
000154 00137633236148 0000 30dc NtQueryKey hKey=30h InfoClass=7 -> 0x0 (success) [*** key not seen before @5][*** Resolvehandle failed]
000156 00137633308477 0000 30dc NtOpenKey h=0000012C OK ObjAttr=("Software\Thinstall\RuntimeObjects" rooth=00000030 CASE_INSENSITIVE) Access=(unk=2000000h)  [Open found in RW_View]

2nd:
000174 00137816052617 2a38 02b8 ????????????:0000000077812658->????????????:0000000077a6bb80     NtCallbackReturn (PVOID =*2D5FA40h, ULONG =18h, NTSTATUS =0h)
000175 00137816349087 0000 02b8                                                                  NtQueryValueKey h=0000012C st=C0000034 (Object Name not found)***  InfoClass=2 KeyValuePartialInformation [12ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\RuntimeObjects][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\RuntimeObjects [SBMessage] failed, not found & isolated]
000176 00137822148741 2a38 02b8 ++++ Prior function NtCallbackReturn did not terminate properly -- possible exception

exitprocess:
001577 00142844200061 0000 02b8                                                                  NtQueryValueKey h=0000012C st=C0000034 (Object Name not found)***  InfoClass=2 KeyValuePartialInformation [12ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\RuntimeObjects][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\RuntimeObjects [SBMessage] failed, not found & isolated]
001578 00142844202636 2a38 02b8 ????????????:0000000077913ddc<-????????????:0000000077a6bca0     NtQueryValueKey+
001580 00142894962242 0000 30dc                                                                  ExitProcess 0
001581 00142939393988 0000 30dc                                                                  NtMapViewOfSection h=000001B0 OK ph=-1  base=22E1C8h/2430000h zero=0h commit=0h/0 offset=22E1C0h/0h/0 size=22E1D0h/10000h/65536 inherit=(1 ViewShare) alloc=(0h) protect=(4h PAGE_READWRITE)
001582 00142939620812 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtOpenKey_nt hKey=0, subkey=Software\Thinstall\ProcessList -> 0x0 (success) [Open found in RW_View]
001583 00142939651415 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtOpenKey_nt hKey=0, subkey=Software\Thinstall\AuxProcessList -> 0x0 (success) [Open found in RW_View][Open found in RW_View]
001584 00142939687167 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtEnumerateValueKey_nt -> 0x8000001a *** failed [Open found in RW_View][Open found in RW_View][1b4h=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\AuxProcessList][ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS]
001585 00142939698221 0000 30dc                                                                  CloseVirtualRegistryKeyHandle hKey=1b4h (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\AuxProcessList)
001586 00142939703914 0000 30dc                                                                  NtClose h=000001B4 OK
001587 00142939766133 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtEnumerateValueKey_nt -> 0x0 (success) [Open found in RW_View][Open found in RW_View][1b4h=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\AuxProcessList][ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\ProcessList][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\ProcessList]
001588 00142939870635 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtEnumerateValueKey_nt -> 0x8000001a *** failed [Open found in RW_View][Open found in RW_View][1b4h=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\AuxProcessList][ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\ProcessList][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\ProcessList][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\ProcessList][ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS]
001589 00142939878637 0000 30dc                                                                  CloseVirtualRegistryKeyHandle hKey=19ch (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\ProcessList)
001590 00142939883124 0000 30dc                                                                  NtClose h=0000019C OK
001592 00142939887033 0000 30dc                                                                  This is the last non-service process in this sandbox
001593 00142939920182 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtOpenKey_nt hKey=0, subkey=Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList -> 0x0 (success) [Open found in RW_View]
001594 00142940005248 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtEnumerateValueKey_nt -> 0x0 (success) [Open found in RW_View][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList]
001595 00142940029538 0000 30dc                                                                  virtual_NtEnumerateValueKey_nt -> 0x8000001a *** failed [Open found in RW_View][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList][19ch=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList][ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS]
001596 00142940050732 0000 30dc                                                                  CloseVirtualRegistryKeyHandle hKey=19ch (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thinstall\StubProcessList)
001597 00142940062209 0000 30dc                                                                  NtClose h=0000019C OK
001601 00142940087230 0000 30dc                                                                  ExitProcess-stage 3
001603 00142940088628 0000 30dc                                                                  ExitProcess-stage 5
001605 00142940091142 0000 30dc                                                                  Shutdown: Deleting temp files
001607 00142940092406 0000 30dc                                                                  ExitProcess-stage 6
001609 00142940094816 0000 30dc                                                                  ExitProcess-stage 7

000159 00097942544727 0000 0604 NtOpenKey h=0022F2A0 st=C0000034 (Object Name not found)*** ObjAttr=("Software\VMware, Inc.\ThinApp\PackageSettings" rooth=00000030 CASE_INSENSITIVE) Access=(READ/LIST)  [Software\VMware, Inc.\ThinApp\PackageSettings not found in RW_View or RO_View & fully isolated]
000163 00097947539187 0000 0604 NtQueryKey hKey=30h InfoClass=7 -> 0x0 (success) [*** key not seen before @5][*** Resolvehandle failed]
000164 00097947599283 0000 0604 NtOpenKey h=0022F2A0 st=C0000034 (Object Name not found)*** ObjAttr=("SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\Installations" rooth=00000030 CASE_INSENSITIVE) Access=(READ/LIST READ_EA WRITE_EA WRITE_ATTR READ_CONTROL)  [SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\Installations not found in RW_View or RO_View & fully isolated]

I try to thinapp Adobe Acrobat DC and faced with problem.

Acrobat has little executable AcroCEF.exe (looks like this is Chrome 45).

This exe crashes on Acrobat start (see attach). I have replace it with selfmade

exe which do nothing, just starts and stops after 5 sec. This resolves problem with crash,

but original AcroCEF.exe is required for Fill & Sign tool.

For thinapp I used Thinapp ver. 5.0, 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.2.

Has anyone thinapp Acrobat DC and how to resolve AcroCEF.exe problem?

Hi All,

I am currently trying to ThinApp GIMP 2 on a Windows 7 VM using ThinApp 5.2.2.

When I try to launch it on my Windows 7 workstation the pop up shows in the bottom right of my monitor, but nothing ever launches.

Does anyone have an idea what may be causing this not to launch?

Many thanks!

Hello,

I am trying to ThinApp Mozilla Firefox v52 using ThinApp v5.2.2.

This is on a Windows 7 VM.

When I try to launch the ThinApp on my Windows 7 workstation, I receive an error that reads...Missing Import C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\ucrtbase.dll->kernelbase.dll:CreateProcessW.

Does anyone know how to correct this? I currently have Firefox v49 ThinApp'd and it works fine, but the newer versions have this issue.

Many thanks for any help you can provide!!

Wondering if anyone can help, I have a VBScript which is attempting to copy a folder to the local sandbox but it keeps copying to the virtual file system, is there a way around this? I have implemented a msgbox to verify the path I have specified and it's given me the location of the local sandbox but when it copies the folder it copies to %AppData%/Local on the virtual file system. Hope my explanation makes sense. I'm assuming the redirect is by design.

I have an application operating a MS Access database file. My .exe made with Thinapp has the database file packed into the .exe. I need to have the database as a separate file (outside the .exe) so that I can make updates of the program without changing the database file.

Regards

Egil/Terrasim