At the User Account Control, Click Yes.Its a great little app and, in my opinion, should be part of any VDI deployment. You’ll want to have a clean state every time you go to package a new app. Now that we have ThinApp installed, Shut down your VM and take a snapshot.You’ll now see three new icons in your Start Menu.Once the installer is done Click Finish.Here you’ll need to enter in your Horizon View License and give it a name.Like everybody does, read the License agreement and Select “ I accept the the terms of the license agreement.” and click Next.You’ll be presented with a patent wall.On your “clean” VM, run the ThinApp installer.I’ve used Notepad++ for this particular post. The Thinapp Installer which can be downloaded from VMware’s website.It doesn’t really matter as we’ll be rolling the VM back to a clean snapshot at the end.

My preference is to have no AV installed.

A clean install of windows, in this case I’m using Widows 10.

It’ll be a basic app but will still work.īefore we start you’ll need the following: We’re got to go through the process of installing ThinApp and then creating our own ThinApp. They can be streamed, deployed locally, and are a great way to run older, legacy apps on later OS’s (although the last bit might not technically be supported).

They’re efficient, easy to create, portable and they just work (most of the time).

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