So, when ThinApp’ing the DropBox client on Windows 7, I was able to come up with a couple tips.

First, get dropbox downloaded on your ThinApp workstation. I have a snapshot of a VM that’s already run the pre-scan, so that I always have a fresh starting point when doing any ThinApp packaging.

We’re then going to call the Dropbox Installer using the /S switch, for a silent install!

The install will then run in the background and you will get prompted with the following screen.

Here is the key, if you enter any information here, it will be stored in your ThinApp package. So the trick is to just exit the screen with the X box in the top right corner.

Then make sure there are no DropBox processes running before running the post-install scan!

Then following your traditional ThinApp steps to complete the build!

Tags: ThinApp, VDI, VIew, vmware