Wise Package Studio Reference
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Capturing Applications
The recommended setting is the root drive (C:\) with Include Sub-directories turned
on, which means that the entire hard drive will be watched for changes. This provides
the most complete record of file changes by capturing all changes made on the system.
However, the problem with watching the entire drive is that you might capture changes
that have nothing to do with installation, those that occur in the normal course of
operating a computer. To avoid capturing irrelevant changes, you can build an exclusion
list in SetupCapture Configuration.
See
Exclusion List Guidelines
on page 209.
Note
Because changing files on the root drive of the destination computer can have
undesirable results, changes to the top level of the root drive are not captured even if
you specify the root (C:\).
To override this and capture the root, mark Allow root to be watched during capture
on the General Settings dialog box of SetupCapture Configuration.
To set directories to watch
1. Do one of the following:
Run SetupCapture Configuration and proceed until the Directories to Watch
page appears.
On the Welcome page of SetupCapture, click Settings and click the Directories
to Watch tab. If the Settings button is unavailable, you might not have
permission to change settings.
See
Setting SetupCapture Configuration Security
on page 44.
2. Click Add.
The Select Directory dialog box appears.
3. Select a directory and click OK to add it to the list of watched directories. To watch
all the subdirectories of the directory also, mark Include Sub-Directories. Click
OK.
Exclusion List Guidelines
SetupCapture and SOE Snapshot use an exclusion list to determine which items on a
computer to ignore. A basic exclusion list that contains operating system-related files is
in the default configuration files in the share point directory and on the local computer.
The basic exclusion list appears on the exclusion dialog boxes that appear in
SetupCapture Configuration, SetupCapture, and SOE Snapshot.
You can exclude the following items: files, directories, files based on wildcards, registry
values, and registry keys. Items that you exclude from SetupCapture are ignored for
changes. Items that you exclude from SOE Snapshot are not recorded as part of the
standard operating environment.
Generally, you should exclude:
z
Anything that is temporary.
z
Anything that is likely to be different based on the end user or hardware.
z
Anything that is not applicable to Windows Installer technology.
(Windows Installer packages only.)
