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Spinnaker DB Tools for Excel 97 etc
$90 - Spinnaker Software Solutions

Spinnaker Tools is an Excel Add-in particularly suited for analyzing and manipulating lists and databases in Excel. Features include easy moving/deleting/hiding/displaying of columns, field joining with concatenation, string manipulation, enhanced D-functions, extra logical functions, checkdigit functions,unit conversion functions, extra print options, data merge, easy advanced filtering, six key sort, and a multisheet extracting (copying) facility. Read more about the features on our web page at: .

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InstallAware Express MSI Installer
$199 - InstallAware Software Corporation

Exclusive! Set up 64 Bit and 32 Bit Systems with the Same Installer
Detect and support ia64 and x64 systems including Itanium, AMD64, and EM64T. Only InstallAware allows you to ship a single hybrid MSI for both your 32 bit and 64 bit customers.

Exclusive! First to Support Windows Vista
InstallAware version 6, released June 2006, is the first setup solution to market with full Windows Vista support. Detect and target setups for Vista systems, and install into restricted user accounts.

Exclusive! 1-Click Patching
Select your old and new setups, click Build Patch, and InstallAware automatically generates a native MSP-file that is packaged using advanced compression.

Exclusive! Refined User Interface
Deliver setups that display the latest visual themes. 15 unique dialog themes, non-rectangular setup windows, plus Flash and HTML billboards, make your setups more interesting and more interactive.

Exclusive! WebAware Installation? Technology
Reduce download size by removing technology dependencies (such as the .NET Framework) or rarely used features from your main setup file. The main setup will download them seamlessly from the web as needed. Files required by the minimum configuration are included in the main package, which installs without a web connection.

Extend Setups with Custom Programs
Run any program as part of your setup, without requiring a particular program location or having to install the program together with your setup. Run before/after your install/uninstall, or even from the finish dialog.

Five Minutes to an Installer
Build setups in minutes using wizards, templates, and samples. Then make refinements using InstallAware's intuitive task-based views.

Java Installation Support
Build Java application installations, with support for preinstalling Java Virtual Machines and runtime environments on Windows systems. Complete project sample included.

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InstallConstruct
$395 - FileStream, Inc.

InstallConstruct is a full featured Windows installer program, which is designed with a user-friendly expanding wizard system to make creating Windows 95, 95b, NT 4 (SP1-SP6), 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista Installer, self-extracting Packages, Setup Wizards, and Uninstallers easy. Unlike other Installer and Setup creation programs, InstallConstruct does not require the user to have any programming background; nor does it require the user to learn any application specific language.

InstallConstruct not only creates Setup Wizards and HTML-based installations, it also automatically saves each step of your work in the creation of a project as a package script file (*.adx). These script files not only save you from the repetitive task of creating other similar packages and in updating the existing ones manually, they also support command line batch processing in unattended operation so they can be created automatically, without any user prompts!

These systems are ideal for the efficient and professional distribution and installation of groups of files, economically compressed in size for you and your user's convenience. In addition to creating the installation system, the program offers the convenience of delivering files through the Internet or Intranet, requiring no additional programs for your file installation.

In addition, InstallConstruct supported language scripts include: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

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Smart Install Maker
$79.99 - InstallBuilders Company

Deciding between a free scripting installer and a feature-bloated enterprise solution? Save time on software deployment and eliminate any learning curve by creating installation packages in just minutes!

There are free installers out there, but are they worth their zero price tag? Spartan user interfaces force you to learn scripting languages in order to create a basic install. Are several hours of wasted time worth the monetary savings?

The enterprise installation solutions are bloated with features, taking hours of your time to master their complexity. Combine that with hefty price tags, and they become hard to justify.

Smart Install Maker offers you the best of two worlds. It is simple to use, allowing you to create a perfectly usable installation package in just a few minutes, yet all the features are there, making it possible to create complex installation paths with very little effort.

Even if you've never dealt with installation programs before, Smart Install Maker can be used immediately with no learning curve involved. Its intuitive interface will guide you through the entire process. Simply type information such as the product name, the installation path and your company name, and select the files that should be installed. Then, click Build, and Smart Install Maker will do the rest.

Smart Install Maker allows you to create completely customizable installations, giving you full control. Advanced compression algorithms and extremely small overhead make it possible to create compact installations that are easy to download. Full uninstall control is enabled.

Customize every system requirement as desired, from operating system version to end-user privilege level, specify interactive or silent installation, gain access to registry keys and INI files, execute custom commands and pass values via installer variables - all this is not only possible, but elegantly performed with Smart Install Maker!

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InstallAware Studio Admin for MSI
$1499 - InstallAware Software Corporation

Exclusive! Run Nested MSI Setups and Capture Progress
Deploy any MSI setup seamlessly within your InstallAware Wizard - even capture progress from the nested MSI. Install any feature set that the MSI offers, fully customizing the setup from the command line.

Exclusive! Multi-Instance Support on All Windows Platforms
Allow users to install multiple copies of your application on the same system, without requiring instance transforms or adding an MSI 3.0 dependency. Supports Windows 95 through Windows Vista.

Exclusive! Dynamic Feature Lists
Use MSIcode and variables to define product features based on target conditions or user entitlements. Only InstallAware provides feature-level customizations at runtime.

Exclusive! System Tray Minimized Setups
The new System Tray MSIcode command allows you to minimize your setup as an icon in the system tray. Use the MessageBalloon command to prompt users when a process needs their attention.

Exclusive! Dynamic User Validation
Use the included Authentication sample project to pass parameters or credentials to your website and save the results in a local file, which you search for the required authentication. Open access to certain features or to the entire setup.

Exclusive! Automatic Removal of Prior Versions
When a previous version is detected, InstallAware will provide the option to uninstall it before proceeding with the installation - automatically. Other Windows Installer tools simply allow the setup to fail and exit.

Exclusive! Compression Hyperthreading
Dual core, hyperthreaded processors, and multi processor systems are automatically detected, allowing compression tasks to be spread across multiple (logical) CPUs to reduce build times.

Enhanced! Setup Repackaging
Convert setups to Windows Installer format by capturing the system changes made during the installation process. Enhanced to reduce package clean-up tasks.

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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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