VMware THINAPP 4.6 - Starting Explorer.exe in the Virtual Environment; Troubleshooting Java Runtime Environment Version Conflict

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Chapter 10 Monitoring and Troubleshooting ThinApp
2Replacethelastfourxxxxcharacterswithrandomalphanumericentriestoincreasesecurity.
3 CreateadirectorythatisnamedintheOutlookSecureTempFolderregistrykeyinyourThinAppproject.
Forexample,createthe%Profile%\Local Settings\OutlookTempxxxxdirectory.
4Inthe%Profile%\Local Settings\OutlookTempxxxxdirectory,createa##Attributes.inifilewith
thefollowingentries:
[Isolation]
DirectoryIsolationMode=Merged
Starting Explorer.exe in the Virtual Environment
Runningoneinstanceoftheexplorer.exeutilityonaWindowsoperatingsystemmakesitdifficulttoadd
anentrypointtoWindowsExplorerandstartitinsidethevirtualenvironment.
YoucanusethefollowingmethodstoopenaWindowsExplorerwindowinsidethevirtualenvironment:
 AddanentrypointtoiExplorerandstartitwiththe-Eparameter.
Forexample,addthefollowingentriestothePackage.inifile:
[iexplore.exe]
Shortcut=xxxx.exe
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
CommandLine=%ProgramFilesDir%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe -E

Addthefollowingvirtualregistrykey:
isolation_full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Value=DesktopProcess
REG_DWORD=#01#00#00#00

AddthefollowingentriestothePackage.inifile:
[explorer.exe]
Shortcut=xxxxxx.exe
Source=%SystemROOT%\explorer.exe
Usethismethodtobrowsethevirtualfilesystemwithafamiliarinterfaceandenableaccuratefiletype
associationswithoutsystemchanges,especiallywhenusingportableapplications.Youcanaccess
shell‐integratedcomponentswithoutsystemchanges.
Troubleshooting Java Runtime Environment Version Conflict
AconflictmightoccurifoneversionofJavaisinstalledonthephysicalsystemandanotherversionisincluded
inacapturedexecutablefile.UpdatedversionsofJavainstallaplug‐inDLLthatInternetExplorerloads.This
plug‐inDLLoverwritesvirtualregistrykeysandconflictswithavirtualized
copyofolderJavaruntimes.
Prevent Internet Explorer from loading plug-in DLLs
AddthefollowingentrytothebeginningoftheHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txtfile.
isolation_full HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser
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