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Can I launch multiple entry points from one ThinApp shortcut?

September 21, 2009, 8:33 am
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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

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Updating a ThinApp application

October 30, 2009, 7:57 am
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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!

 

 

 

 

 

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Kill other Process at end of ThinApp?

November 30, 2009, 3:41 am
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Hi,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i have a big problem :

 

 

 

 

 

 

i thinapped IE6 + Java 1.5 + Adobe 7.05

 

 

 

 

 

 

everything works realy fine but when i start my portal website and i

need java and adobe it also works but when i end the internet

explore.exe (My Sandbox Name) the javaw.exe and the adobe.exe are also

running on my client pc. The java and the adobe are climing high in my

memory and after 2 hrs my memory is full.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So my Question is : How can i kill the Adobe.exe and the Javaw.exe when i close my Internetexplorer.exe ThinAPP ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thx

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Firefox fails to open files from download

December 3, 2009, 9:19 am
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I have a thinapp instance of Firefox 3.5.5 which for some reason fails to open anything from the download window.  Meaning if I select a PDF online and tell it to open using adobe I get the following (this issue is not isolated to adobe however)

 

 

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/7900/error.JPG

 

 

I have removed the users name so normally the empty space in the string contains that.

 

 

The locally installed instance of IE8 can open files just fine with the intended application.  Both Firefox and Adobe are registered with the VM's using thinreg.  The VM's are Windows XP SP3, all available updates have been applied.  All applications were created using thinapp v4.0.3.  Ultimately we can select to download the file and then navigate to the folder and open it from there but thats not really user friendly and I can't go to everyone with that as the solution.

 

 

 

 

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AppSync svchost.exe used 100% CPU

December 23, 2009, 5:18 am
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Hi,

 

I have package Thinapp Office2007,Firefox and another Software.

 

Without configured Appsync running my packages wuthout problems.

 

After configured  Appsysnc http://server/aplication.exe, I have many svchost.exe running  from ..\thinstall\cache\stubs folder.

The many svchost.exe files used 100% CPU.

 

Ideas for my problem???

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NetRelaunch in 4.0.4

June 16, 2010, 2:22 pm
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Haven't got access to 4.5...

 

If I got it right, the "stub" in %appdata%\thinstall\cache\stubs is created and run from when the thinappedd file is run from a network-share?

We don't have Symantec (but Trend) so I tried disabling this stub-usage by putting NetRelaunch=0 under buildoptions and rebuild, also removed the old sandbox, but I still see in process explorer that my process is being run from the previous mentioned path?

And that happens also when I run it from a local drive, (a "physical" disk in my vmware-session, driveletter E:).

 

I want to disable the stub to see if it boosts performance, and also because the packed application itself uses a kind of relaunch-process.

(upon first run, it copies the executable file from a network-drive to c: and run it from there)

 

Is NetRelaunch malfunctioning in 4.0.4 or am i missing the concept?

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Thinapp'd Microsoft Office 2010 not closing all processes

September 29, 2010, 8:13 am
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I posted this on the VMware Thinapp Blog  but I wanted to make sure the VMware discussions had it as well.

 

I've virtualized Office 2010 with Thinapp 4.6 and all the applications seem to run "buglessly" however xxx.dat remains open in memory after closing out of everything (Office 2010).  I've added the VBscript to close xxx.dat on LASTPROCESSEXIT but the process continues to run in memory.

 

The VBscript works flawlessly on other Thinapp'd packages I've created.  See below:

 

Function OnLastProcessExit

               Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

               WshShell.Run "taskkill /F /IM Office.dat"

               End Function

Any suggestions?

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Getting error RelaunchUsingCreateProcess::CreateProcess failed when running a ThinApp in Vista

November 11, 2010, 1:41 am
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Hi all,

 

I've ThinApped an application in ThinApp 4.5 on a clean XP SP3 build and it runs perfectly on XP. The problem comes when running it on Vista; I get the error message "RelaunchUsingCreateProcess::CreateProcess failed ". I've tried ThinApping it on Vista and get the same error message running on Vista and a different error message when running on XP. I'm not concerned about it not running on XP as backward compatibility isn't strictly supported but I thought I'd try it just in case. I've also tried ThinApping it in 4.6 but get the same results. The package is linked to two other packages but I don't think that's where the problem lies as the error message refers to the executable of the main package.

 

I haven't been able to find much about the error apart from this post that seems to suggest it's a bug in ThinApp related to memory. The author's solve was to amend the exe of the app in question to address the memory issue. Unfortunately I don't have that luxury.

 

Does anyone know any more about this bug? Is there any way of solving the issue? Is it likely to be addressed in a future release?

 

Any help gratefully received.

 

Thanks!

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Converting registry txt files to proper reg format

January 2, 2011, 8:15 am
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Is there any tool to convert the txt registry files (when capturing) into an equivalent reg file?

 

Joakim

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Thin App IBM Iseries Access

January 27, 2011, 7:38 am
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We have IBM Iseries Access thin App'd but cannot find where the connection entry is stored with the I/P address of the AS/400.  I can go into a session and log in and open navigator and input it and it saves it under my user profile but I have 2000 users I need to do this with. Has anyone else figured out where the connection entry is stored and how I can push it out to all users?

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Adobe Acrobat 8 ‘Create PDF’ Issue thinaped package

March 2, 2011, 2:35 am
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Hi

 

   I  have been trying to find out a forum or an article to thinapp Adobe acrobat but couldn’t find a complete solution. After reading several forums, Here is what I did and struck

 

  1. On to a clean vm, (XP sp3) installed Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard
  2. Registered and activated the license (volume license)
  3. Removed the adobe pdf printer and driver (removed dll files in system 32 relating to adobe printer driver, as printer driver can not be virtualised) and restarted the PC
  4. continued with the capture process and packaged the application (Thinapp 4.6)
  5. After that I reverted back to the clean snapshot and launched the thinapp application.
  6. I know that I have removed the pdf printer driver from my package. So I downloaded the Adobe PS driver for windows XP from here
  7. Then I have launched the thinapped package and all seem to work ok. When I click on Create PDF from Acrobat, I got the error 01 and then 02 (as attached above).
  8. But what I noticed that I can create PDF from notepad, jpeg files but it is only the Microsoft office files that give the above error message.
  9. I have been searching adobe forums yesterday and found few articles on how to install adobe pdf printer manually from here but I couldn’t find mydocs\*.pdf printer not could I find any adobepdf.inf files.
  10. I have tried this on different images and all came with same error (on office, rest of the files are ok)

 

So I am wondering, Has any one successfully managed to create PDf from office files from ‘Create PDF’ button in Acrobat.  If you have any solution then We could add that to our master base image. As a work around we have pdf creator software installed on the base image and users are creating PDFS from there.

 

      But users would like to use the create pdf feature from Acrobat as they have been using in a native installation without any issues. We are talking about 200 users at least in here.

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Java 1.6.0_U21 Thinapp 4.6.1

June 15, 2011, 1:15 pm
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We have a web-based app that checks to see if you have Java 1.6.0_U21 installed.  I'm trying to follow the instructions in the various blog posts on thinapping java, but getting stuck.

 

Firstly, the old blog posts still apply to the old versions of thinapp, so I'm needing to do a bit of translation to the new version which seems to fix some problems already. What I'm trying to do is thinapp this JRE to get it to run the native IE in the sandbox with 1.6.0_U21 available as a plugin.  I am doing the capture on a clean XP SP3 VM.  After doing the install and build I revert the VM to the pre-installed state and this captured version runs IE just fine with the plugin.  However it doesn't work on my Windows 7 desktop.  I get the following error in my event log:

 

 

Faulting application name: java.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4c417649
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16695, time stamp: 0x4cc7ab86
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00046d04
Faulting process id: 0x7ac4
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc2b95a1c279b7
Faulting application path: C:\Users\testuser\AppData\Roaming\Thinstall\Java(TM) 6 Update 21\SKEL\77a3d9c34c7bd3fa455a259833675586a865b\java.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: dfe814c7-9788-11e0-b175-005056c00008

 

Is this because my Windows 7 is 64-bit?

 

I've seen that 4.6.1 is supposed to not require you to delete any files in the %systemsystem% directory of the captured stuff.  Indeed those files aren't in there before a build.

 

Any tips for figuring out what's going wrong?

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Microsoft Visio & Project 2010

August 16, 2011, 11:00 am
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   Has anyone had success with creating a capture of Visio and Project 2010 on Windows 32 bit?

I followed the steps for creating a capture of Office 2010 and still no luck. 

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ThinApp 4.6.2 and Adobe Acrobat Professional

August 29, 2011, 2:11 am
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I was excited to read about ThinApp 4.6.2 this morning but I am hoping someone could clarify the release notes in particular in the resolved issues section.

 

Point no. 2: Virtual Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional cannot create a PDF file from a native Microsoft Word or native Microsoft Excel document. ThinApp does not support virtualization of printer drivers.

 

Does it mean VMware resolved this issue by not supporting the feature? or the other way around. Thank you.

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Visio 2010

August 31, 2011, 8:28 am
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Can someone point in the direction of how to thinapp Visio 2010 using thinapp, I've created a Office 2010 package but when I have that running and I open Visio I get a licence actiation error.

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ThinApp Script to terminate child processes

January 8, 2012, 4:07 pm
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Working on virtualizing Quickbooks 2012 Premier with Eval version of ThinApp 4.7.

 

QB leaves 3 or 4 processes running after closing QB that consume too much RAM to keep running indefinitely in a Remote Desktop environment, so I'd like them to terminate along with QuickBooks. My experiments thus far show no ill effects from doing so, aside from longer QB load times. And it has the side-benefit of preventing background QB updates, which, here, is desireable.

 

I am including a VBScript with my package that works correctly outside the bubble, but does not work at all when run from the OnFirstParentExit callback. The relevant code follows:

 

Function OnFirstParentExit     Dim objWMIService     Dim colProcess     Dim objProcess     strComputer = "."     Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")     Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process")     For Each objProcess in colProcess          If InStr(UCase(objProcess.Name), "QUICKBOOKS") > 0 Then               objProcess.Terminate          End If     Next
End Function

 

I've verified that closing QB does, in fact, run this procedure, by adding a Wscript.Echo statement.

 

Is it not possible to terminate these processes from a script within the bubble? If so, is there a way to have OnFirstParentExit run this procedure outside the bubble?

 

TIA

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Office Communicator 2007 R2 (outloook integration error) on XP with Office 2010 SP1

January 16, 2012, 4:41 am
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So I have followed the document http://communities.vmware.com/thread/263969 to package Communicator 2007 R2. All running "tickety boo" except there is a little red blob on the task bar icon showing "Outook Integration Error". As expected the Outlook integration with status updates and the green/amber/red lights next to contacts is not shown...

 

Now, Microsoft says this is due to your primary SMTP not being the same in both Outlook and Communicator and that you can fix this error by adding the regkey:

 

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator

create DWORD DisableEmailComparisonCheck=1

 

Despite the unlikelyhood of my primary SMTP address being different I have added this key to the project, rebuilt it but the error is still there.

 

I have then followed MS Method 2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951644 of adding an adm file to the GPO and editing the "Disable email comparison check for Outlook PIM integration", still no dice.

 

The VM where I am trying to run this is a View 5 VM with XP SP3, Office 2010 SP1 is installed in the build. (Office 2010 is not thinapp'd)

I have also tested this on Windows 7 machine with Office 2010 installed, same results.

 

I have also tried changing the below section on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.TXT to "isolation_writecopy" instead of "isolation_full" - no difference.

As can be seen below, the DisableEmailComparisonCheck is also there and set to 1 which in theory should get rid of that error.

 


isolation_writecopy HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Communicator
  Value=
  REG_SZ~Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2#2300
  Value=InstallationDirectory
  REG_SZ~%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft Office Communicator\#2300
  Value=RollbackCommand
  REG_SZ~msiexec.exe#2300
  Value=MediaDirectory
  REG_SZ~%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft Office Communicator\Media\#2300
  Value=RollbackParameters
  REG_SZ~/x {0D1CBBB9-F4A8-45B6-95E7-202BA61D7AF4}#2300
  Value=LCMsgCleanup
  REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00
  Value=EvalCleanup
  REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00
  Value=DisableEmailComparisonCheck
  REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00

 

 

Is anyone else experiencing this or can point me in the right direction?

 

Much appreciated!

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ThinApp 4.7.1 and StatusbarDisplayName

May 8, 2012, 4:45 am
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Is the StatusbarDisplayName parameter broken under ThinApp 4.7.1?  My newly captured apps won't display the glorious names I designate.

 

Example of its usage:

 

[SomeApplication.exe]
Source=#25drive_C#25\SomeFolder\SomeApplication.exe
Shortcut=SomeApplication.dat
WorkingDirectory=#25drive_C#25\SomeFolder\
Icon=#25drive_C#25\SomeFolder\SomeApplication.exe
Shortcuts=%Programs%\SomeVendor
StatusbarDisplayName=Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

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Package is unable to access locally installed service

July 31, 2012, 1:38 am
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Hi Guys

 

I'm having trouble getting a thinapped application to access a locally installed database service (Firebird).

The app has its own db files which it uses the service to open/access - The Firebird doenst have the database files.

 

If I include the firebird in the capture process it works but i'd like to leave the db on the image and keep the app seperate as it has regular updates....

 

I've tried all of the following in package.ini:

VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM=0
ChildProcessEnvironmentExceptions=fbguard.exe;fbserver.exe

ChildProcessEnvironmentDefault=Virtual

AllowExternalKernelModeServices=1

AllowExternalProcessModifications=1

 

I've  also changed the isolation mode of %systemsystem% to merged (Where the  .dll files are that the app is complaining it can't find) with no joy.

I've used log monitor but cannot see anything obvious.

 

Anything I might have missed or could try on top of what I already have? Any suggestions will be appreciated!

 

TIA

Don

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Unable to Query the registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009 index 0

August 26, 2012, 8:46 am
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When I run the Thinapp Prescan I come up with this error message and was just wondering if anyone has encountered this same error message on a plain vanilla Windows 7 installation.

 

Thank you,

Lawrence

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