ThinApp architecture

Since it cannot be mentioned too many times, ThinApp is agentless. Nothing needs to be installed on the client in order to run and use a ThinApped application. The ThinApp runtime is built into each one of the ThinApp packages you create. ThinApp does not create conflicts between different versions of ThinApp runtimes, so you can run packages built using different ThinApp versions on one single machine.

The ThinApp runtime manages file and registry access within the virtual environment. With the help of isolation modes you can decide what may or may not be modified on the native operating system. The ThinApp runtime loads processes and manages memory. Because it is the ThinApp runtime that launches a process, the runtime now ...

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