| Note regarding InstallScript versions: The samples on this page have been developed with various versions of InstallShield. Some of them require a minimum InstallShield version or may only work in the one version they have been created for. Often it will be possible to make them compatible with other InstallShield versions. |
Windows NT has a bootup countdown that defaults to 30 seconds. With this function you can set the bootup counter value.
prototype at_FixBootTimeout (BYVAL NUMBER);
FixBootTimeout.zip Written by
Tom LaRoche
File size: 676 bytes Last update: 2000-03-22
Whether you need to verify an existing user account and password, or need to create a new user, this package shows you how to do it. Included is the InstallScript code and the required support DLL. It was tested on Windows NT 4 with SP5 or above - it will not work on Windows 9x. The sample script is written for IS6, and uses InstallDialogue for some dialogs. Before you can run the sample code, you will have to install InstallDialogue (free download).
CreateOrSelectUser.zip Written
by Colin Leath
File size: 180.608 bytes Last update: 2001-04-07
This function works similar to AddFolderIcon, but creates the shortcut on the Quick Launch Bar.
QuickLaunchIcon.zip Written by Torsten Brannolte
File size: 655 bytes Last update: 2000-11-11
This is an InstallShield function that calls OLE32.DLL functions to create a new GUID and returns it in a STRING variable.
prototype CreateStringGUID (BYREF STRING);
CreateStringGUID.zip Written
by Bruce Wakefield
File size: 1.269 bytes Last update: 09/28/1999
With this function you can modify the default settings of the event log. It will change the Maximum Log Size and the Overwrite period of the selected log ("Application", Security", or "System"). This is usually done from the Event Viewer menu Log/Log Settings.
prototype at_CustomizeEventLog(STRING, NUMBER, NUMBER);
CustomizeEventLog.zip Written
by Tom LaRoche
File size: 1.161 bytes Last update: 2000-01-31
See Versatile Setup Extension DLL below.
This script detects the existence and current version of DCOM on Windows 95.
prototype GetDCOMVersion( BYREF BOOL, BYREF STRING );
To install DCOM as silently as possible call dcom95.exe /r:n /q:u
GetDCOMVersion.zip (638 Bytes) Provided
by Ken McKinney
See also: InstallShield Object to install MDAC and DCOM
The first time you use the Search function in Windows Help, an index (.gid) file for the help (.hlp) file you are using is generated automatically. If you later update the .hlp file, this index is out of sync. Therefore you should delete the corresponding .gid file. On the other hand, you should not delete .gid files for help files that are not updated, because generating the index is a time consuming process. This function detects which help files have been updated by your setup, and deletes the corresponding .gid files.
This function requires IS6 or above.
DeleteGid.zip Written by David Osborne
File size: 2.863 bytes Last update: 2000-05-23
These functions detect whether HTML Help is installed, retrieve the version number and can launch the HTML Help setup. The HTML Help installer is not included in this package. See the Windows Updates and Add-Ons page for information where to obtain it.
See also: Book about authoring HTML Help
prototype _GetHTMLHelpVersion( BYREF STRING ); prototype _InstallHTMLHelp( STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, BOOL, STRING, STRING ); prototype _VerifyHTMLHelpInstalled( BOOL, STRING, STRING, STRING );
htmlhelp.zip Written by Chris Dufour
File size: 8.213 bytes Last update: 06/29/1999
This package includes functions to retrieve information about the installed version of Internet Explorer and to launch the IE setup program. It works for all 32 bit Windows versions of IE. The detection part is based on article Q164539 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
prototype _GetIEVersion(BYREF NUMBER, BYREF NUMBER, BYREF NUMBER, BYREF NUMBER, BYREF NUMBER); prototype _GetIEVersionName(NUMBER, NUMBER, NUMBER, NUMBER, BYREF STRING); prototype _GetIEVersionNameX( STRING, STRING, BYREF STRING ); prototype _InstallIE( STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, BOOL, STRING, STRING ); prototype _VerifyIEInstalled( BOOL, STRING, STRING, STRING );
(This package supersedes getiever.zip by adding the capability to install IE.)
ie.zip Written by Chris Dufour and Stefan Krüger
File size: 10.112 bytes Last update: 06/29/1999
This function retrieves the version of the installed Windows NT service pack, and returns it as string and as numerical value.
prototype GetNTServicePack(BYREF STRING, BYREF NUMBER, BYREF NUMBER);
NTServicePack.zip Written by Stefan Krüger
File size: 1.608 bytes Last update: 2000-11-10
The above function requires InstallShield5 or above. Following is an older version of the function that is compatible with InstallShield3, but does not support Windows 2000:
is3ntservicepack.zip Written
by David Penner
File size: 744 bytes
Shortly after SP6 had been released, Microsoft replaced it wth SP6a. Unfortunately the
service pack version number has not been updated, so the GetNTServicePack function can't
be used to distinguish between SP6 and SP6a. To detect whether Service Pack 6a is
installed if SP6 is detected, you can check to see if the following registry value is set
to 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Hotfix\Q246009\Installed
Call this function to find out whether active desktop is installed and whether it is displayed as web page. This function is compatible with Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x. It is based on information from article Q216840 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
prototype _IsActiveDesktop();
actdesk.zip Written by Stefan Krüger
File size: 1577 bytes Last update: 04/06/1999
This function tells you whether setup is running on Windows NT Server or Windows NT Workstation.
prototype BOOL _IsNTServer();
IsNTServer.zip Written by Bill MacEachern
File size: 467 bytes Last update: 03/04/1999
In Windows 2000 the Add/Remove control panel applet can display much more information than just the program name. For instance, it displays an icon for your program, and can optionally show your home page URL etc. Most Windows Installer based setups store this information automatically, but it setups created with IS5 or IS6 can do this, too.
Recommended place to call this function:
ARPinfo.zip Written by Blake Miller
File size: 1.599 bytes Last update: 2001-06-29
This function searches a given Icon folder, e.g. "Programs", "n" levels deep and returns all resulting icons.
prototype GetAllIconsFromFolders(STRING);
GetAllIconsFromFolders.zip Written
by Chris C Robsahm
File size: 1.172 bytes Last update: 2000-02-08
Use this function to install true type fonts automatically. Package includes rul file, sample, usage instructions and the required dll (source and compiled for both 16 and 32 bit). This script is compatible with IS5 and IS6.
Some of the features:
Note: Article Q100057 in the InstallShield Knowledge Base has informations about font installation, too.
Tefonts103.zip Written by Troy Engel
File size: 141.289 bytes Last update: 2000-04-08
The functions in this package are not only extensive samples for using the GetSytemInfo function. They also show how to detect OS/2 Warp version and how to find out whether Windows is using small or large fonts.
GetSysInfo.zip (4.860 Bytes) Provided
by Rainer Feuerstein
See also: How to Identify Windows 2000 and Window Me in a Setup Program
The functions in this package enable your setup to install/uninstall files and registry entries across multiple local profiles on NT/2000/XP target workstations. All this is done entirely within InstallScript and API calls, and does not use a custom DLL. It was developed for InstallShield Professional 6.3 and will not work with lower InstallScript versions.
NTProfiles.zip Written by Voltaire Toledo
File size: 6.732 bytes Last update: 2002-07-31
See also: Load a User Hive Under the HKEY_USERS Key
Here is a set of functions that will modify the existing path and add a new entry as well as removing that entry when uninstalling.
It only works on Windows NT/2000 and requires IS6.
prototype SetEnvPath(STRING, BOOL); prototype RemoveFromPath(STRING);
Update: now uses SendMessageTimeout instead of SendMessage to avoid hang if some program doesn't process the message.
PathSetup.zip Written by Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy,
updated by Ronny Lipshitz
File size: 1.508 bytes Last update: 2003-06-12
This DLL includes functions to install printer drivers on Windows 9x, NT and 2000. See myprinter.h for usage information.
You can use this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
InstallPrinter.zip Written by Jan Becker
File size: 31.076 bytes Last update: 2001-08-29
This function creates an internet shortcut in on the desktop, in a program folder or in the user's Favorites folder.
prototype CreateUrlShortcut(STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, NUMBER);
To create a link to InstallSite on the start menu, using the default URL icon, you would call:
CreateUrlShortcut(FOLDER_STARTMENU, "InstallSite", "http://www.installsite.org/", "", 0);
createurlshortcut.zip Written
by Stefan Krueger
File size: 1.552 bytes Last update: 05/04/1999
This package uses IS6 COM support to find, delete and create a public queue in Microsoft Message Queue. To, create the queue, you send the queue name and computer name to the MSMQCreate function (MSMQCreate will delete a queue with the same name, if it exist, before creating the new queue. The create function will return the newly created queue's GUID in the BYREF STRING. To delete or find a queue, you only need to send the queue name or queue GUID.
prototype MSMQCreate(STRING, STRING, BYREF STRING); prototype MSMQFindExisting(STRING, STRING); prototype MSMQDeleteExisting(STRING, STRING); prototype MSMQCreateQueue(STRING, STRING, BYREF STRING); prototype MSMQDetect();
MSMQadmin.zip Written by Bruce Wakefield
File size: 2.113 bytes Last update: 2000-07-31
This package calls a VBS file to find, delete and create a public queue in Microsoft Message Queue. The MSMQvbs.rul shows examples of how to call the functions in msmq.vbs. This will write entries to the registry, instead of a log file, so that IS can read the output from msmq.vbs.
This function requires that Windows Script Host is installed on the target machine.
prototype TestMSMQvbs();
MSMQadminVBS.zip Written by Bruce Wakefield
File size: 3.896 bytes Last update: 2000-07-31
This package uses IS6 COM support to create and delete an MTS package and detect MTS on the current machine. It uses an Mtscom.ini file along with the MTS.rul to create a package. The InstallPath=, LoginName= and Password= portions are updated by one of the functions in the MTS.rul. The rest of the information is entered prior to build. This should work with NT4 and Win2000.
prototype MTSCreatePackage(STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING); prototype MTSDeletePackage(STRING); prototype MTSDetect();
MTSadmin.zip Written by Bruce Wakefield
File size: 4.118 bytes Last update: 2000-07-31
This multi-purpose setup extension DLL exports three functions:
Included is the C source code, the compiled DLL (for Windows 95 and NT) and a .rul file that shows how to call the functions.
ishlp.zip (22.697 Bytes) Provided by Peter Moser
InstallShield's QueryProgItem() function doesn't work for start menu entries with paths containing environment variables. There is a DLL available at support.installshield.com/resource/IsFuncExt.asp that covers this problem. Unfortunately this DLL doesn't provide as many information as QueryProgItem() does. More disadvantageous is, that the returned paths are in the 8.3-format. This DLL is a replacement for QueryProgItem(). It returns as many information as QueryProgItem() does and it works for paths containing environment variables.
QueryShortcut.zip Written by
Martin Golm
File size: 28.970 bytes Last update: 2000-05-06
The system variable FOLDER_STARTUP is only valid in 32 bit installs. If your setup runs on a localized version of Windows 3.1x it is a bit more complex to get the name of the startup folder. This function works on 16 bit and 32 bit Windows in all languages.
prototype GetStartupFolder(BYREF STRING);
getstartup.zip (634 Bytes) Provided
by Stefan Krueger
The following samples can be used to set user permissions on files, directories and registry keys.
Note: In InstallShield 2010 a new SetObjectPermissions function was introduced for this purpose, so you might not need the samples below. However, SetObjectPermissions doesn't work on 64-bit registry and file locations (workorder# IOA-000056378). Thanks to Kevin Mackey for this information
This function sets permissions not only on files but also on registry keys
and printers. It doesn't use the cacls tool but instead calls Windows Security
API functions directly. It uses Universal SIDs and therefore works language
independent. If the target object doesn't have an ACL (e.g. a FAT32 file system)
the functions returns an error code.
The script was tested with InstallSield Professional 6 and Developer 8.
ntperm.zip Written by
Klaus Ewinger
File size: 2.903 bytes Last update: 2003-07-17
This sample shows how to call the cacls tools in Windows NT 4 and 2000 to set access
rights for directories on NTFS. You don't need to test to find out if the partition is
NTFS or FAT - the command executes without doing anything on a FAT partition (since there
are no NTFS permissions) - no error is returned (it hasn't been tested on a FAT32
partition). Of course you need to have Administrator rights.
Note: Some special user names are localized on different language
versions of Windows, e.g. instead of "Everyone" you have to use
"Jeder" in a German version of Windows, else this function will fail.
ntfs_perm.zip Written by Jeff Meyer
File size: 1.181 bytes Last update: 2000-05-02
This DLL allows you to grant or revoke a specified right under NT for the specified user.
NTrights.zip (45.883 Bytes) Provided
by Artur Valitov
Need to change regional setting like currency symbol, date or number format? Here is the function you need. It works for both, Windows95 and Windows NT.
prototype NUMBER winSetLocaleInfo ( LONG , STRING );
setlocaleinfo.zip (2.813 Bytes) Provided
by Kurt Petteloot
This DLL provides so many functions that it can't be filed under one specific topic. Here is an overview of the features:
Included is the DLL source code, compiled DLL and InstallShield header file and sample code.
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Some of the dialogs included in this package have been created with InstallDialogue. If you want to use them, you have to download the InstallDialogue Free Edition from Moonsea Software |
Notes:
instvc.zip Written by Mike Brown
File size: 123.868 bytes Last update: 08/17/1999
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