After finishing the process, you will get your own portable application, which will run on any computer.Ĭopy your portable app (in this example both Nightly.dat and exe) on a pen drive and run the exe from any computer.New InstallAware Virtualization Creates Royalty-Free Portable Applications. In this window, you can choose ‘ separate DAT file’ for portable app or choose only single exe files (I have selected separate DAT file), then click save button.ġ1 Finally, click on ‘ Build’ button to create portable application for installed software.ġ2. Now enter your own inventory name or leave it as default. Then select ‘ User profile’ and click ‘Next’ button.ĩ. Now select ‘ Full write access to non-system directories’ (Merged Isolation Mode) and click “Next” button.Ĩ. Select ‘ Everyone’ (to set permission to all users) and click ‘ Next’ button.ħ.

Choose the executable that you want to be the main container (Here it is Nightly.exe) and click ‘Next’ button.Ħ. Now, it will display a window as shown below. After finishing the process, click ‘Next, Next’ button.ĥ. After installation, open minimized VMware Thinapp, click on ‘ Postscan’ button, and wait some time (see screenshot above). In this tutorial, I have installed Firefox 9 (Nightly build).Ĥ.

After finishing the Prescan process, it will ask you to install software that you want to make portable (see screenshot below). Minimize VMware Thin App to system tray and install any application that you want to make portable. It will scan your current system state and create a snapshot of your system.ģ. Then click on ‘ Prescan’ button (see screenshot).Ģ. Download (50MB) VMware Thin App (available for 60-day trial) and install it. How to Build Portable Application Using VMware Thin Appġ.

VMware ThinApp is an application virtualization tool that helps you build any types of portable application quite easily though looks complicated ( I think there is no need to discuss about the technical aspect of VMware ThinApp in this topic).

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