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Advanced Installer Professional
$249 - Caphyon LLC

Advanced Installer Professional 5.2 is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP, 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. It also offers three additional licensing levels for more sophysticated needs: Professional, For Java and Enterprise.

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Easy Pocket PC Installer
$99.95 - Phelios Inc.

Tired of making installers for Windows Mobile based devices? Let EasyPPC Installer free you from complex and hard to use interfaces. EasyPPC Installer works the way you think it should, Drag and Drop your files, set a few properties, and click the button to create an installer, all from one easy to use dialog. EasyPPC Installer doesn’t have any wizards to work through or tons of useless settings you’ll never need, it is a simple, straightforward application that creates no-nonsense installers for PocketPC and Smartphone based devices.

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PocketPC Installer
$74.99 - Pocket PC Toolkit Ltd

The PocketPC Installer is unique. Simply drag'n'drop your PocketPC / Windows Mobile .cab file & data files into the PocketPC Installer, and it will compress all of your files into two types of self-extracting Installer files.One installer file for your PDA and one installer file for your Desktop. Just decide which is more useful for you, and ignore the other ! It's incredibly easy to use. It includes many unique features such as intelligent installing of the .Net CF .cab file, ability to "resume" installing after a .cab file has soft-reset the device, restore registry entries, add background image and user license agreement, multi-lingual, create shortcuts, support for all screen sizes, etc.

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WiXAware for Windows Installer XML
$499 - InstallAware Software Corporation

Rapidly build Windows Installer MSI installs
Our Windows Installer authoring tool makes it a snap to create professional MSI installs. No complex scripting or database knowledge required.

Microsoft Windows Standards Compliant
Create installs that fulfill the requirements for the Microsoft Windows logo certification process. Administrators can use your MSI setups to silently and automatically deploy packages onto thousands of corporate workstations.

Based on WiX (Windows Installer XML) Technology
Empower your setups using the same technology that Microsoft teams internally use to build world-class installers, such as the Office suite.

The Only IDE with Automatic WiX XML Code Generation
As you use the WiXAware visual designers to configure your settings like files, shortcuts, and registry keys, WiXAware generates the underlying XML code for you. Switch to the XML view to review the code that has been generated, with the ability to directly edit it. Switch back to the visual designers, and your latest changes are reflected. WiXAware even offers a visual dialog editor with automatic WiX code generation and two-way integrated editing.

Sign packages with Microsoft Authenticode Digital IDs
Recent operating system updates to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and the new Windows Vista make it vital to use digital signatures in your MSI packages. WiXAware lets you create digitally signed MSI packages, not only complying with the latest security requirements, but also giving your users confidence in your product.

Build Windows Installer patches (native MSP files)
WiXAware offers a Patch project which creates Windows Installer patch files for updating your applications already on the field. Users download a small native MSP file which contains only the binary differential updates to your software, nothing more.

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Installer Design Studio
$499 - ScriptLogic

Installer Design Studio reduces the cost of application ownership and software distribution by simplifying the creation, modification and deployment of application installers. With a comprehensive tool set, administrators can intuitively create, develop and modify Windows Installer (MSI) packages ready for distribution to Windows desktops, enterprise-wide. Installer Design Studio combines: a centralized re-packager to create installer files and transforms, an intuitive MSI editor to modify installer files via a table view, and our exclusive MCE validation which performs rapid ICE validation visually within the editor. Installer Design Studio empowers the administrator to better manage and customize deployment of applications across the enterprise.

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Actual Installer
$69.95 - Softeza Development

As users, we always appreciate intuitive, user-friendly, efficient and good-looking installation interfaces. As developers, we must not forget that despite being the last step in the creation of the program, application deployment is anything but unimportant. The process of building the setup package should be taken into account well in advance.

If you are a developer looking for a reliable, easy-to-use and efficient software installer, lean back and relax - you have just found it! Actual Installer is a professional tool for creating great-looking installation packages with incredible ease! The wizard-driven interface allows you to forget about tedious and time-consuming scripting, as the program will take good care of this. All you need to do is to fill out the necessary forms and attach the documents that you want the end-user to read.

Along with the basic installation functions, Actual Installer features advanced capabilities, such as multilingual installations, registry and INI files modification, checking the system specifications for their compliance with the program requirements, setting file associations, registering fonts and ActiveX components, protecting the setup files with a password and much more! All of these features take just a few minutes to configure and compile into a compact setup file. Even the most demanding users will be pleasantly surprised by the visual aspect of the installation packages created by Actual Installer.

Many companies have opted for the Actual Installer instead of resorting to using custom-built and much more expensive installation systems. The reason is simple - Actual Installer has everything a professional developer needs at a great price! Actual Installer saves you time and money by making installations easier, faster and more reliable than ever!

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