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remoteapptool
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kimmknight / remoteapptool

remoteapptool

Create and manage RemoteApps hosted on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, XP and Server. Generate RDP and MSI files for clients.

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What it is

Create and manage RemoteApps hosted on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, XP and Server. Generate RDP and MSI files for clients.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-04-18 10:41:54 UTC to 2025-09-02 10:10:11 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Looks like it's just a fancy Docker container running the Windows RemoteApp implementation, wrapped around some VM management skins? I normally set this up on Windows boxes directly with https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool and https://github.com/kimmknight/raweb to build a basic "remote Windows apps" box on my network overall -- it's nicer to be able to have one central Windows VM running that I can put the apps wherever I need them across whatever device in my house.
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You just got me to do a little digging... apparently, as of Windows 10, RemoteApp itself isn't restricted by licensing (at least, any more than Remote Desktop itself is)-- Windows 10 Pro (and Enterprise) can now host RemoteApp applications. The catch is that the UI to configure RemoteApp isn't present on client versions of Windows. It can be configured manually (by editing the registry then creating RDP files by hand), or there are open source tools that will do the work themselves: https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool Somewhat outdated Microsoft docs on how to do this by hand: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-an...
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