The bug is by design and when engineers do that, they call it "a feature". It does not compress EXE or DLL files in the new version unless you specifically tell it to. It makes it faster and I believe gives it a lemony scent.

Regarding your #2 feature request, check out Robert Carter's ThinApp Isolation Viewer. It will save you some work in Notepad++. It has been a very useful troubleshooting tool for me. Screenshot attached. He also has a utility for isolation modes in the the registry. I highly recommend purchasing both at his discounted price.

Check out http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2009/05/app-troubleshooting.html for some other nifty tools.

Not that some of these wouldn't be nice to have as part of the ThinApp software but having the interface quick and clean is actually quite nice. It doesn't take much to power up a third part app to troubleshoot the difficult stuff - IMHO.

take care,

Bryan

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