Ghost Installer

Ghost Installer Studio description

Your Lamborghini for XML based installations

Ghost Installer Studio is a visual tool for creating installations. It supports Plug-In API, skins, WebDeploy lets you to distribute your program over a network, RSA encryption and more.

Here are some key features of "Ghost Installer Studio":

Ghost Installer is compatible with Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 and has tons of advanced features:
· Wide variety of project wizards to make deployment easier
· Simple and powerful gDesigner IDE
· Installing of .NET runtime, applications, assemblies and Visual Studio components
· Ability to deploy separate parts of your application or third-party runtimes via the Internet
· Extremely powerful RSA Protection for your installation
· All dialog windows are fully customizable (including uninstallation, system dialogs and even message boxes)
· Fast and effective compression (much better than Zip)
· Single-file self-extracting executable and multi-volume installations
· Scriptable Installer Actions allow an execution of custom scripts on various installer events
· Support for C++, Pascal, VBScript and JavaScript Scripting in addition to available proprietary scripting support
· Compact installer engine
· Installation of files, shortcuts, registry, etc.
· Multi-language installations
· Uninstall, repair and maintenance modes
· Rollback for interrupted installations
· Fully customizeable appearance
· Skinnable user interface
· DirectX deployment support
· Internet Information Services configuration
· Database configuration (MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
· Plug-In API for own plug-in development