How Do I Package Legacy Installer Applications?

Rory Monaghan

Senior Technologist

May 3, 2018

Note: This solution details how to deliver a legacy application to Windows 64-bit, using ArcView GIS as an example. This works because ArcView GIS 3.0 uses a 16-bit installer to deploy the 32-bit application. Installing ArcView GIS on Windows 10 64-bit displays the following notification:

To get around this limitation we will use Cloudpaging to package and deliver ArcView GIS to a 64-bit OS as follows:

Copy the extracted installer (link below) to a Windows 32-bit capture machine.
Use Studio to capture the installation.
In Operating system support, select the desired target OS’s.
In the fonts tab, exclude all legacy .fot fonts.
Set C:ESRIAV_GIS30ARCVIEWBIN32arcview.exe as the command line.
Optionally capture prefetch and then “cloudify” the application.
Cloudpage the application to a Windows 64-bit OS:

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Rory Monaghan

Senior Technologist

Rory has spent his career at the intersection of end-user computing, application delivery, and the Microsoft ecosystem — from packaging shops in Dublin to enterprise architecture in Silicon Valley. He writes about what actually breaks in the wild, and what to do about it.