Patent attributes
A method for creating a product which is a single file executable by a product browser is provided. The method includes: initiating installation operations for application software on a computer system; recording the installation operations of the application software via a product browser, wherein the product browser is configured to create the product and execute the product; and creating the product based on the recording, wherein the creating structures the product with critical dynamic-link library (dll) files that will be pre-fetched by the second instance of the product browser, and wherein the product is structured with a virtualized private registry to be integrated with an operating system registry upon execution such that certain registry keys are virtualized in the virtualized private registry and other registry keys will be deferred to the operating system registry.