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SetupCapture

Guidelines for Capturing an Installation

Wise Package Studio Reference
Exclusion List Guidelines
SetupCapture® records all the changes performed by an installation and saves that
information to a new Windows Installer, WiseScript, or virtual software package. (The
ability to create a WiseScript or virtual software package is not available in Standard
Edition.) For information on saving a captured application as a virtual software package,
see About SetupCapture in the Virtual Package Editor Help. SetupCapture can also
capture the first use changes that an application makes to a computer.
SetupCapture uses several capture methods:
Virtual Capture™, which lets you capture installations on a non-clean machine. The
application you capture is installed into a simulated computer directory structure
and its registry entries are installed into a simulated registry. (Not available in
Standard Edition.)
SmartMonitor™, in which SetupCapture watches the installation and records the
changes the installation performs as they happen.
Snapshot, in which SetupCapture scans the computer before and after the
installation and records the differences between the two scans.
A combination of SmartMonitor and Snapshot.
If you have the Software Virtualization Agent installed, you can use the SmartMonitor
and snapshot methods to capture the installation in a virtual software layer.
See Capturing an Installation in a Virtual Software Layer
Configuration files control how SetupCapture works. You select the configuration file
when you run SetupCapture. To create and edit configuration files, use SetupCapture
Configuration.
See SetupCapture Configuration
It is extremely important to create a robust exclusion list before using SetupCapture.
The exclusion list is contained in the configuration file. It consists of files, directories,
files based on wildcards, registry values, and registry keys that should be ignored by
SetupCapture.
Note
To capture an application on a computer that is running Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, use
Wise Web Capture instead of SetupCapture.
See Capturing With Wise Web Capture
Before using SetupCapture for the first time, read the following guidelines to learn how
SetupCapture works. For guidelines on saving a captured application as a virtual
software package, see Guidelines for Capturing an Installation in the Virtual Package
Editor Help.
Run SetupCapture on a clean machine.
See Setting Up a Clean Machine
on page 209
on page 202.
on page 245.
on page 218.
Capturing Applications
on page 219.
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