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Requirements for Capturing Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
Before you start the Setup Capture wizard the following requirements must be met:
 You must have a clean virtual machine with Windows XP installed.
Ensure that Windows XP includes all the service packs and Microsoft updates, so that Internet Explorer
6 is captured with the latest security fixes from Microsoft.
 ThinApp must be installed on the same machine.
Capture Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP by Using the Setup Capture Wizard
Capturing Internet Explorer 6 using the Setup Capture wizard is similar to that of capturing other
applications. There are two key differences. When you use the Setup Capture wizard to capture Internet
Explorer 6 on Windows XP, you define an entry point to Internet Explorer. You also use ThinDirect to specify
URLs that will be redirected to the virtualized Internet Explorer 6 browser.
See “Capturing Applications with the Setup Capture Wizard” on page 16 for a full overview of the standard
Setup Capture process.
Run setup capture on a machine running Windows XP with Service Pack 3, and with the .NET framework
installed.
Capture Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
1 Create a system image using the Prescan process of the Setup Capture wizard.
2 In the Install Application dialog box, click Internet Explorer.
3 Select Include entry point for virtualized Internet Explorer 6 in the virtual package and click OK.
This option captures both the files that changed during setup capture and other required files and registry
settings.
4 Install any plug-ins for Internet Explorer that you want to be included in the package.
5 Rescan the system using the Postscan process of the Setup Capture wizard.
6 In the Setup Capture – Entry Points dialog box, select the default, VirtIE6.exe.
7 Follow the prompts until the Native Browser Redirect dialog box appears.
8 Create a list of the Web sites and pages that you want to redirect to the virtual Internet Explorer 6 package.
Each entry must be on a separate line.
 You can use wildcards, for example *.example.com.
 You can specify a site so that all pages on that site are redirected, for example, www.example.com.
 You can specify a site name followed by a page name, so that the specific page is redirected, for
example javatester.org/version.html.
9(Optional) When you have saved the package, open the ThinDirect.txt file, which contains the entry
point to Internet Explorer 6 and the list of redirect addresses, and edit the file.
This file only exists after you create entries in the Native Browser Redirect dialog box.
The redirection list is located in %appdata%\roaming\Vmware\VMware Thinapp\Thindirect.
10 Follow the prompts to build the project.
The ThinDirect.exe file is embedded in the package, with the plug-in ThinDirect.dll and plug-in
launcher ThinDirectLauncher.exe files.