Running the Setup Capture wizard
Let's capture our first application together. The first couple of applications you capture should be easy ones. There's no point starting with the toughest possible application. One of the easiest applications to start with is Mozilla Firefox. If you do not currently own ThinApp, you can download a fully functional trial version from VMware's home page, http://www.vmware.com/thinapp. The trial version will generate time-bombed packages but the project folders it creates are fully functional and a simple rebuild, using a licensed copy of ThinApp, will produce unlimited packages. The following steps will help you capture our first application:
Have a virtual machine available as your capturing environment. Personally I use VMware Fusion but any virtualization solution should work. Boot your capturing machine. I'm using Windows XP in this example but you should be able to run through the example using Windows 7 as well. Before doing anything else make sure you...