Using thinreg.exe to register your applications
thinreg.exe is the tool used to register a package in order to give it the look and feel of a locally-installed application. Registering a package will register file types, protocols, and object types, create shortcuts and add the package to Add or Remove Programs. You can
run any application packaged using ThinApp by simply clicking on an entry point, but running the application will not register the application.
Running Excel
packaged with ThinApp does not register the .xls file type. The operating system does not know how to handle the Excel file.
When the user
double-clicks on the Book1.xls file, they are presented with the not so user-friendly dialog box shown in the previous screenshot.
You can register an application by running thinreg.exe and point it to the package. When we use our previous Excel example, the code snippet will look as follows:
thinreg.exe "Z:\ThinApp\Applications\Microsoft Office Excel 2003.exe"
You can run thinreg...