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    What you can do with InstallMaster

Product overview
InstallMaster provides the fastest and most user-friendly way to develop a Windows 9x/NT logo-compliant installation. It automatically identifies and handles self-registering files, shared files, and core components.

It has operating system, memory, processor, file/directory, registry and display requirements checking, logical grouping of files in components, file versioning, strong encryption, Start Menu and registry access and update and full uninstall support. InstallMaster also generates the required registry entries (such as application paths, registering applications in Control Panel for easy uninstallation etc.) without any intervention from the developer.

In addition, InstallMaster features an unmatched executable file dependency checking, so you do not omit any files from your setup kit that your application relies on (no matter in what programming language or with what tool you created it) and can package your setup kit for distribution on many media types, even as a single-file self-extracting executable, suitable for Internet distribution.

Besides the lots of features, InstallMaster is also very easy to use, due to the revolutionary point-and-click interface and the built-in exhaustive context sensitive help, as well as the latest UI features found in all leading software packages. These include object oriented design, clipboard and drag-and-drop support, right-click activated context sensitive menus everywhere and last but not least the friendly Step-by-Step Setup Project Wizard that lets you answer a few basic questions and have a professional setup in just minutes.

Feature list

• Support for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 or higher.
• Requirements checking before proceeding with install.
• Logical file, component and feature hierachy.
• Install-time setup type selection and/or feature customization.
• Complete registry and Start Menu access and update.
• Component and feature dependencies.
• Smart file dependency checking that assures no required file is omitted from your kits.
• Possibility of immediate launching new software after installation.
• Automatic license agreement generation and easy maintenance.
• Full uninstall support integrated in the Control Panel.
• Many media types supported, including several floppy sizes, CD-ROMs and even custom media types.
• Possibility to test-run and debug your setups directly from the InstallMaster IDE.
• Simple to use point-and-click interface.
• Exhaustive help, including error and warnig message reference, context sensitive help, tip-of-the-day and on-line FAQs.

Supported setup types

• Setup type mini. Minimal user interface (a few prompts and a copy progress dialog), logical file, component and feature hirerachy, registry and Start Menu access and update and full uninstall support.

Which edition to choose?
Answering this question should be extremely simple for now: the Lite edition. Simply because the other two version are still under development.

However, keep an eye on what's happenning here at Interscope. We might have a few pleasant surprises for you.

Feature hunting
Even if someone sets out to build the best tool ever, is is almost certain that there will always be somebody who will want something the developers did not think about. But we do know this.

So, why don't you let us know what you would like to see in future versions? Please submit us a feature request.