MakeInstall 8.0c

MakeInstall description Make an INSTALL.EXE for your Java Program The MakeInstall application was designed to help you create an INSTALL.EXE for your Java program, with full install and uninstall support. InstallShield overhead is too large: You have just finished your Java application. Now, how do you create a installation program with full install and uninstall support? Do you use InstallShield or a similar product? You could, but InstallShield has a large overhead -- for the simpliest of programs (installing a single file) you are looking at a large install program! That is not acceptable. MakeInstall is the solution: MakeInstall packs a lot of power into a very small package. The EXE overhead is incredibly small. Just look at all of the Duckware downloads! NOTE: MakeInstall may be used for no additional charge when you purchase a JexePack license. Here are some key features of "MakeInstall": · Install/Uninstall - Full install and control panel uninstall support · Ultra small install EXE overhead (around 60k) · Supports installing/uninstalling ActiveX DLL's (via regsvr32) · Your EXE can hook into the install/uninstall process. Requirements: · JexePack · Sun's Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2 (or later) installed. Limitations: · MakeInstall is shareware. That means that you may try it for free to see if it works for you. If you like the software enough to keep using it, you must pay for it. If you find anything wrong with the software, let me know and I will try to fix the problem immediately. My entire liability for your use of this software shall not exceed the amount you paid for the software. You may not reverse engineer or decompile the software. You may not modify the software in any way. The software may not be used on adult sites nor to display adult material. License violations will result in license termination, forfeiture of license fees, and possible prosecution.

pmcyg 0.2.1

pmcyg 0.2.1

pmcyg description

Create Cygwin packages with the help of this program.

pmcyg is tool that will enable you to create customized collections of Cygwin packages. This application takes a user-supplied list of Cygwin package names, and downloads only them and their dependencies from a Cygwin mirror, for example to create a CD or DVD based offline installer.

DDay.Update 0.72.1

DDay.Update 0.72.1

DDay.Update description Add automatic update capabilities to your application with this tool. DDay.Update is an easy to use class library and bootstrap loader designed to enable you to add automatic update capability to your .NET 2.0+ applications. This tool uses ClickOnce manifest files, but avoids some of the do-it-all-for-you pitfalls of ClickOnce while staying easy to use. · Added ApplicationLauncher class to assist in restarting an application after a manual update. · Added preliminary support for automatically updating Windows Services. · Added support for a public application folder in configuration

ARsetup Creator 2.0

ARsetup Creator 2.0

ARsetup Creator description

Create setup programs based on your Remedy forms and workflow

The ARSetup Creator application was developed to help you easily create setup programs based on your Remedy forms and workflow. The final setup program provides an easy to use interface that will look professional in the eyes of your clients

Here are some key features of "ARsetup Creator":

· Designed for Remedy 6x servers
· Give your clients a Setup disk with a professional looking setup program
· Your clients can run setup without being a Remedy expert
· Autorun feature so your client can insert the CD and start clicking "Next"

CustomEffects Installer 1.1.7 RC

CustomEffects Installer description

Unpacks the contents of PolyCE files and installs the CustomEffects for Adobe After Effects

CustomEffects are standard presets but they look like and behave as standard plugins. Adobe After Effects needs to know the definition of presets in order to interpret them correctly. Some time ago I started to publish my heavily expression–based presets as CustomEffects.

Before you install any CustomEffect make sure you have administrator privileges and that the file PresetEffects.xml Read-Only flag is set to off.

CustomEffects Installer has an auto-update feature. Each time you run the application it will check if there is a new version available. If so it will download it and run the update process automatically. This will cause the current instance of the application to close and reopen after the installation is complete.

Give CustomEffects Installer a try to see what it's all about!

Setup Factory 8.2.1.0

Setup Factory description A tool that allows users to create setup modules Setup Factory software has all the things you need to make solid professional software installers that work on every version of Windows. The compressed, single-file setup.exe is ideal for distribution on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, LAN, web download, email or even floppy disk. An easy-to-use Project Wizard helps you create ready-to-build installation projects in minutes. Simply drag and drop your files, choose a look and feel using the new Visual Themes System and click on the Publish button. It's that easy to create a rock-solid software installer. But Setup Factory doesn't stop there. With the addition of a new and powerful scripting engine, Setup Factory 7.0 can handle even the most sophisticated installation tasks. The new scripting engine features everything from "for, repeat and while" loops, to "if/else" conditions, functions, variables and associative arrays. With a library of over 250 functions and an easy-to-use Action Wizard, advanced installers can be created by anyone. Even beginners can make registry changes, call DLL functions, execute programs, start and stop services, interact with web scripts, enumerate processes, download files and much more. With the new Screen Manager and Visual Theme System, you can create installers that are as unique as you want them to be. Choose from 20+ screen types and dozens of themes/skins, including HTML formatted text, license agreements, edit fields, check boxes, radio buttons and many more. Other features include MD5 serial number security, expiration checking, multilingual support, authenticode signing, shortcut icons, registry editing, HTML-based project reports, uninstaller, spell checker, runtime modules, Visual Basic project scanner, silent install mode and support for automated builds. Learning resources include a comprehensive User's Guide (PDF), Command Reference, Scripting Tutorial and optional video training CD-ROM. Here are some key features of "Setup Factory": · Install Any File � Anywhere! Setup Factory 7.0 features an unbeatable development environment that puts you in total control of your files. Simply drag and drop your files and folders onto the project window and you're ready to build. Setup Factory is smart enough to maintain your folder structure, automatically query version resource information, create shortcut icons and ensure 100% data integrity with reliable CRC-32 checking. Of course, everything can be customized and overridden if you wish, but for most projects the improved Project Wizard can handle it all with just a few clicks. · Compact Single-File Setups Smaller and faster means a better experience for your customers and Setup Factory 7.0 delivers. Compare our tiny ~450 KB runtime overhead (including uninstall) to the competition and see for yourself. Additionally, with no "unpacking" step required, Setup Factory 7.0 installers are also much faster to initialize and install than those created by competitive tools. What's more, our Publishing Wizard walks you through the build process with a few easy steps. The single-file setup.exe is ready for distribution by web, email, LAN, CD, DVD and even floppy disk. · Project Quick-Start Spend five minutes with Setup Factory's easy to use Project Wizard and come away with a complete, ready to build installation project. You'll be walked through each option so you can get your project started as quickly as possible. · Customizable Install Wizard Screens Over 20 pre-built layouts handle just about any task your installer could want, and it's easy to adjust them to fit your needs exactly. There's everything from check boxes, radio buttons and edit fields to popular screens like license agreements, serial number verification, shortcut folder selection and other advanced options. Each screen features a real-time preview so you can see the result of your changes as you work. · Themes and Skins Choose from dozens of pre-made themes (skins) for your screens or even make your own. It's as easy as viewing a live dialog preview and picking your favorite style. You can configure everything from fonts (face, color, size, style) and banner images to body/background graphics, control colors (buttons, check boxes, radio buttons) and more. Whether your installer needs a corporate feel or a hip attitude, you can do it with Setup Factory 7.0. · Background Window Options Choose between the traditional setup-wizard style or the modern Windows Installer style interface. You can customize the background window with gradients, images, color washes, headlines and footer text with 3D effects. Now you can also select a custom taskbar icon, force the setup window to remain on top of other windows or even hide the taskbar icon completely for totally silent installs. · Extensive Action Library Setup Factory comes with a built-in library of more than 250 easy to use actions, so you can do whatever you need without having to be an advanced programmer. There are actions to handle everything from text file editing to system registry changes. You can execute programs, call DLL functions, query drive information, manipulate strings, copy files, enumerate processes, start and stop services, interact with web scripts, display dialog boxes and much more. · Easy to Use Action Wizard You don't have to be a wizard to create powerful installers with Setup Factory 7.0. We've built the wizard into the software! Simply choose the action you want from a categorized list (complete with on-screen interactive help), fill in the requested information fields and the wizard does the rest. You don't have to know anything about scripting or programming � just fill in the blanks and you're done. Making changes is just as easy. Click on the line you want to change and press the "edit" button to go back to the original form. It's really that easy. · Powerful Scripting Engine We've taken the classic Setup Factory action engine and replaced it with an all-new and incredibly powerful free-form scripting engine. Based on the popular LUA language, this easy to understand scripting language features everything from "for, repeat and while" loops, to "if/else" conditions, functions, variables and tables (associative arrays). Paired with the built-in action library, full mathematical evaluation and Boolean expressions, there's simply nothing you can't achieve. Of course, we've also built in an "Action Wizard" and "Code Wizard" so even complete novices can create powerful installers that handle even the most demanding installation tasks. · Color Syntax Highlighting Action Editor If you've outgrown the Action Wizard interface or simply want to unleash the power of the fast and efficient scripting engine, we've got you covered. The Setup Factory 7.0 freeform action editor features all of the professional features you'd expect. There's color syntax highlighting, code completion, function highlighting, as-you-type action prototypes, Ctrl+Space function listings and even context-sensitive help. If you're used to programming in Microsoft� Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C++ or any other modern development language, you'll be right at home. · Expandable with Action Plugins Setup Factory 7.0 can be easily expanded with Action Plugins. These plugin modules can extend the product in infinitely powerful ways, such as adding support for databases, XML, data encryption and FTP file transfers. Tight integration with the design environment � including IntelliSense style code completion and syntax highlighting � makes them just as easy to use as built-in actions. Plugins are available through Indigo Rose as well as third-party developers thanks to Indigo Rose's freely available plugin development kit. · Dependency Modules & Runtime Support Instantly add runtime support for many popular third-party technologies, including Visual Basic 5.0, Visual Basic 6.0, DCOM, JET, MDAC, Visual C++ and more. Additional dependency modules are easy to create and integrate seamlessly into the development environment. Setup Factory 7.0 gives you complete control over the detection and installation of each module, so you can easily adjust the behavior to suite your particular requirements. · Flexible Uninstaller Setup Factory 7.0 features a new and improved uninstall feature. Simply turn it on and let Setup Factory worry about removing your files. Anything that is installed during the setup will be marked for removal by the uninstaller. However, if you want to go in and tinker with the settings, you'll find that the uninstaller is now fully customizable. You can take full control of what files are removed, what shortcut icons are deleted, what registry changes are made and anything else you require. Even the dialog screens and sequence can be adjusted to suit your needs! · System Requirements Checking You can easily enforce system requirements just by clicking a few boxes. Built-in checks include operating system, memory, screen resolution, color depth and administrator privileges. If the user's system does not meet the minimum requirements you have chosen, the installer can either warn the user or abort the setup entirely. · Serial Numbers, Security and Access Features Setup Factory includes a variety of features designed to help you manage access to your software, including serial number lists and date-based expiration. With its powerful serial number generator you can quickly create thousands of unique serial numbers, which are stored internally as secure MD5 hashes. Hidden from prying eyes, your installer data is compressed using proprietary algorithms and only accessible to those users who supply a valid serial number. Of course, if you'd rather do it yourself, Setup Factory 7.0 is flexible enough to support your own custom validation and authorization schemes. · Packages, Categories and Install Types Creating installers for complex and multi-part products is now easier than ever. With dramatically improved support for grouping files into packages, it's a snap to group products and features into a single installer. There's even support for categories so you can group your packages into logical components. It's the ultimate in flexibility for those large projects that need to support different installation types like typical, minimum, complete and custom. · International Language Support Setup Factory 7.0 offers unsurpassed support for multilingual installations right out of the box. While some products charge you extra for this essential feature (or don't offer it at all), Setup Factory 7.0 gives you everything you need to support your customers and clients around the world. Installers created with Setup Factory can automatically determine the language of the client operating system and adjust the display of screens and messages appropriately. Whether you need to support English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or any other language recognized by Windows, with Setup Factory 7.0 you simply provide the text and your installer takes care of the rest! · Built-in Spelling Checker Now it's easier than ever to make sure that typos don't creep into your projects. Basically anywhere you can type, you can perform a spell check to ensure error-free text. Dictionaries are available for over a dozen languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Croatian, Czech, Polish and Slovenian. · Reports and Logs Keeping track of the essential details of your installation project is now just a couple of clicks away. With improved HTML-based project reports (featuring CSS formatting) and text-based install-time log files, you'll have an accurate record of everything you need. New options let you control the level of detail being logged, including options for recording errors and script actions. · Silent Installs Create silent installations that operate without displaying user interface dialogs, prompts, messages or errors. Easily read command defaults from a response file and control the installation automatically. Silent installs let you maintain control over hundreds or thousands of workstations while enforcing corporate standards. New options let you enable silent installs with a command line switch, or even force the installer to always run in unattended mode. Setup Factory 7.0 installers automatically return command line status codes and can be easily called from batch files and automatic build processes. · Visual Basic Project Scanner If you're creating installers for your Visual Basic projects, then look no further! Setup Factory can analyze your VB project and automatically add the necessary runtime files and dependencies for you. There's even an advanced executable scanner that can assist you in determining required DLL's and libraries for those difficult to manage multi-team projects. · Unattended Builds Setup Factory 7.0 fits seamlessly into your daily build process. Creating your product installer every time you build your source code makes it easy to test early and often. Simply include your Setup Factory project in your build process to run automatically and output a finished setup.exe. · Works with Windows 95 through Windows Vista While other installer tools are dropping support for older operating systems such as Windows 95 and 98, we believe that your choice of installation builder shouldn't limit your potential market. Setups created with Setup Factory 7.0 work just fine on every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to Vista. · Comprehensive User's Guide We listened when you said you wanted more learning resources. The new user's guide has been written from scratch to cover everything you need to know to create professional installers. You'll learn everything from basics like working with files and customizing the user interface all the way up to lessons on mastering the scripting language and creating multilingual installers. It's sure nice to have when you want to move beyond the wizards and get the most out of your software investment. · Video Training CD's Available An optional video training CD is available for learning Setup Factory 7.0 inside and out. Compared to classes and seminars, there's really no question that this multimedia training series offers a great value and a depth of content that just can't be beat. Indigo Rose is committed to seeing that your experience with Setup Factory is simply unbeatable! Requirements: · Pentium 4 or equivalent · 256 MB RAM or greater · 19" monitor at 1152x864 or 21" monitor at 1280x1024 (1280x960 if supported by your video card) · High-performance video card · DirectX 8.1 or higher · Sound card · Mouse Limitations: · 30-day trial period · Nag screen

Advanced Installer Professional 7.3.1

A Windows Installer authoring tool useful for administrators and developers.

Advanced Installer Professional is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages.

Advanced Installer Professional is a useful tool for administrators and developers which allows them to create reliable MSI packages.

Advanced Installer runs on Windows, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems.

Windows Installer is a powerful, but very complex technology. Mastering it on your own takes months of hard work. That's where Advanced Installer comes to help.

It creates a high level abstraction on top of the underlying technology. With a clean, simple user interface, each operation is logical and intuitive. Everything is done in the user interface, without complicated scripts to learn or arcane database tables to edit.

Advanced Installer is built on standard, open formats. The project files are saved as XML files for easy integration with source control systems. Advanced Installer is FREE for the simplest, most common usages. If additional capabilities are needed, they are available at some of the lowest prices in the industry.

Here are some key features of "Advanced Installer Professional":

· Advanced Installer makes MSI creation a snap
· Our software installer simplifies the process of building Windows Installer packages by providing a very easy to use, high level interface to the underlying technology. The program implements all the Windows Installer rules and follows all the advised best practices.
· With this simple, intuitive interface, building a Windows Installer package will take just a few minutes. Start the program, add a few files, change the name, hit the Build button and you are done. No scripts to learn, no seminars to attend.
· Read the Getting Started Tutorial to see how easy it really is.
· Advanced Installer integrates in automated build tools
· The Advanced Installer project files are stored in XML format. This way, they can be easily checked into a version control system. The software installer also operates at command line, so that you can build your release packages in a completely automated script, like Make, Ant or NAnt.
· Further more, the most common operations are also implemented as command line actions, so you can modify your project in an automated fashion.
· Install and register the resources composing your application
Using Advanced Installer's intuitive interface you can easily add to your install package all the resources your software requires:
· Files, Folders and Shortcuts (to installed files, existing files or URLs).
· Registry keys and entries.
· Environment Variables (which can be replace or be appended to existing variable like PATH).
· INI file entries.
· ODBC drivers, data sources and translators.
If you have merge modules for your components, they can be also added to the installation. Next you can register these resources as necessary:
· Net and Win32 assemblies
· Services
· File Associations, MIME types
· Permissions for files, folders, registry keys and entries.
· If a previous version of your product is found already installed on the target computer, Advanced Installer can upgrade it and ensure that older version will not be installed over newer ones.
· Search, download and install Prerequisites
· If your application needs some other software to be installed in order to run, you can easily specify them as Prerequisites. Advanced Installer will search for them, then download and install as necessary. This is an easy way to install frameworks like JRE or .NET, browsers or database engines.
· Searching for applications, files, folders, registry keys and INI entries is also provided. Using this, installing additional files, extensions and plugins to existing applications becomes trivial.
· Organize your application in modules and components
· Advanced Installer will organize your application in Features and Components as per Windows Installer guidelines. This way you can take advantage of advanced software installer features like partial install and repair without having to do anything. Further customizing the organization is easy and intuitive.
· Secure and choose your package's presentations
· Advanced Installer can leave your software's files unpacked, compress them into CAB files (split in multiple volumes as needed), insert them into the MSI file and add a EXE bootstrapper for backwards compatibility.
· Digitally signing the generated files will ensure that your customers will never have to question the provenience of your software, and the user registration with serial code validation hooks will ensure that only legitimate users get to install your software.
· Extend the installation process with Custom Actions
· Packed as native EXEs, DLLs or script files and written in C, C++, VBS or JS, Custom Actions give you the full power to add anything you want, anywhere you want to your software installer.
· Customize the installation User Interface
· From silent (unattended) installation, to adding dialogs and changing the graphics, customizing the UI is trivial.

Limitations:

· 30-day trial
· The packages created using the optional features may only be used for testing purposes during the trial period. You may not distribute them.

· Enhancements to existing features
· IIS website IP address picker now supports formatted values
· Bug fixes
· Launch Conditions view was not updated correctly when changing current build
· A new service control operation created a duplicate
· Crash when generating an unique INI name
· Could not install ActiveSync application groups with error reporting enabled
· Issues converting certain projects with extensive modifications on BrowseDlg built-in dialog
· Windows Server 2008 R2 was shown in the predefined 32-bit Windows launch conditions
· Current directory not set correctly when using the launch application finish action
· SETUPEXEDIR property not resolved correctly by the bootstrapper when running from a removable drive

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