Some features most installers really lack of:
- Unicode aware (but still supports Win9x)
- Uninstaller which can delete itself (DeleteFileA/W)
- No temporary files created
- All information etc. is stored in the final setup executable, which can be reopened.
- Can directly import regestry files. No further editing once included!
- Can remember users choice of components, and allowes a fast reinstallation/update
- Dynamically downloading of components (and dynamically shows if internet connection is required during setup process)
Drawbacks:
- So the decompression is extremely fast, the compression factor is bad; Not compatible with other programs
- Uninstaller requires RunDll32 (included with Windows)
- Some privilage issues, esp. on Windows Vista (pretty much untested)
- Not very extendable
- The setup creator itself does not support unicode
- No multilanguage support
- Custom custom script (needs even some knowledge to install files without any (optional) component
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