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Wise Installation System is a tool for creating Windows setup programs based on WiseScript, which later was renamed to Wise InstallBuild, InstallMaker or InstallMaster and but back to Wise Installation System in version 9. [2] Wise Installation System started 1992 as a shareware tool originally distributed via CompuServe. In 1994 John McMillan ...
IExpress (IEXPRESS.EXE) can be used for distributing self-contained installation packages (INF-based setup executables) to multiple local or remote Windows computers.It creates a self-extracting executable (.EXE) or a compressed Cabinet file using either the provided front end interface (IExpress Wizard), or a custom Self Extraction Directive (SED) file. [1]
Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed to install it.
Before the 1990s, "wizard" was a common term for a technical expert, comparable to "hacker." [3] The 1985 textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs was nicknamed the "Wizard Book" [4] for the illustration on its cover; its first chapter says, "A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit." [5]
InstallShield generates a .msi file which can be used on the destination computer in order to install the payloads from the source computer where it was created. It is possible to specify questions, set prerequisites and registry settings that the user will be able to choose at the installation time.
Windows AIK version 3.0 is exactly the same as 2.0; the version number has only been updated to correspond with the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. [7] Microsoft has also released a WAIK supplement for Windows 7 SP1. WAIK readme [8] references the WAIK supplement, [9] which optionally adds WinPE v3.1 to a previously installed ...
To make an installation package with version 1.09, an "ISS.TXT" file needed to be created in the installation directory. In the file, the user needed to supply variables and values which are still used in Inno Setup today. These variables served as the configuration of the installation package but many other features could not be changed.
The Embedded Wizard Studio is distributed by TARA Systems GmbH or its distributors as a per-developer license. The license consists of two parts: The Embedded Wizard Studio (i.e. the IDE), to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on your Windows PC, and the Embedded Wizard Platform Package, which acts as an abstraction layer to the used embedded system, graphical subsystem and (RT)OS (if any).