ThinApp overview
VMware ThinApp is a packaging format. Like MSI and other packaging formats, ThinApp simplifies application deployment. ThinApp uses virtualization to package your application, which lets you execute the packaged application without having to install it. When using ThinApp, you simply need to have access to your package in order to use the application, as compared to the legacy MSI format in which you need to install and register your application on the local machine. As a side effect of using virtualization, you can isolate the filesystem and registry components from the locally installed applications as well as from other virtualized applications. This allows you to run conflicting applications on the same machine. Since you ...
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