Hi,
I'm trying to thinapp office 2007 enterprise with vmware thinapp 5.0.1.1801916 (latest release) on a clean virtual Win XP SP3, OS.
After some cleaning and minor adjustments to the project folder I managed to deploy the virtual app on my real desktop (win 7 ultimate x64).....with some degree of success!!!
However, I observed that I was not able to delete/remove the sandbox folder after all entry point exes were exited or shut down. I managed to find the lingering process in task manager, responsible for the lockdown of the folder. It's a small system executable "splwow64.exe" that when I end this process manually it allows me to delete the sandbox immediately. This file does not exist natively in win XP x86 and I dont have this issue when I run the portable office on this OS.
I tried to use this vbs script from this blog to kill the lingering process but it didnt work.:
"Function OnFirstParentExit
Dim objWMIService, objProcess, colProcess
Dim strComputer, strProcessKill
strComputer = "."
strProcessKill = "’splwow64.exe’"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = " & strProcessKill )
For Each objProcess in colProcess
objProcess.Terminate()
Next
End Function"
I get this error on exit:
Source: (null)
Description: (null)
File: (null)
Line 21, Character 4
At:
I 'm eager to know if someone has an opinion on how to cleanly solve this little problem.
Another issue I have found so far with little testing of this package is that I'm not able to have the help file of any of the entry points in the thinapped MS Office to work correctly. Indeed help file doesnt launch at all, when I click the question-mark icon inside the program i receive this warning:
Microsoft Office Help Viewer, warning
"There are no help topic available that match your request".
Again, this problem is visible only when I deploy the virtual package in Win 7 x64 and Win 7 x86. In win XP Pro SP3 this feature is functioning as it should...
Why is Win 7 x64 crippling the functionality of the portable and what OS component/process may be responsible for this? Anyone, can give me a hint how to resolve this?
Thanks,
John