Chapter 3: Capturing Applications; About Setupcapture; Guidelines For Capturing An Installation - Symantec WISE VIRTUAL PACKAGE EDITOR 8.0 - REFERENCE FOR WISE PACKAGE STUDIO V1.0 Reference

Chapter 3
Capturing Applications

About SetupCapture

Guidelines for Capturing an Installation

Wise Virtual Package Editor Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
About SetupCapture
Guidelines for Capturing an Installation
Setting Up a Clean Machine
Starting SetupCapture
Capturing an Installation
You can use SetupCapture to capture an existing application as a Virtual Software
Package (VSP). SetupCapture can record all the changes performed by an installation
and save that information to a VSP. If you run SetupCapture from Virtual Package Editor,
you can save the output as a virtual software layer or a virtual software project file
(.WVP). If you run Setup Capture from Workbench, you can save the output as a .WVP
file only.
After you capture a package, you can use Virtual Package Editor to edit it.
See also:
About Virtual Software Package Formats
Starting SetupCapture on page 39
Capturing an Installation
Before using SetupCapture for the first time, read the following guidelines.
You must have the SVS Driver (Software Virtualization Agent) installed and you
must restart your computer after installing the driver.
Run SetupCapture on a clean machine.
See Setting Up a Clean Machine
Before you run SetupCapture, close all other applications, including background
services or applications (example: Norton AntiVirus).
When you capture an application as a Virtual Software Package (VSP), there are no
configuration settings.
During a capture, SetupCapture tries to convert computer- and user-specific data in
the registry to generic data that will work on any computer. It does this by searching
for standard paths (example: C:\Winnt) and replacing them with Windows Installer
properties (example: [WindowsFolder]).
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