Tools: Online Distribution

Self Extracting Packages

SetupSqueezer

Setup Squeezer is a commercial tool from InstallAware Software Corporation

Description from the company:
Setup Squeezer is an application to recompress Windows Installer (MSI) and InstallShield (EXE) setups. With LZMA compression technology, and BCJ2 compression pre-processing, Setup Squeezer is able to make already-compressed setups smaller by an additional 15% to 50%. Setup Squeezer improves on existing setup-compression tools by offering a very simple wizard interface that helps you intelligently unpack and repackage existing setups, with runtime support for all versions of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows Vista, using an extraction process that the user can abort, while running with as little as 32MB of physical memory. Previously compressed packages and nested setups are recursively scanned, opened, and automatically recompressed. Setup Squeezer is available in two versions: Setup Squeezer for Windows Installer and Setup Squeezer for InstallShield.

Website: www.installaware.com

MimarSinan Emissary

Emissary is a shareware tool available from Mimar Sinan International

Emissary creates self extracting executables with a high compression rate (CAB-LZX compression). It supports file splitting, authenticode signing, custom messages and license agreement and localization. It has a wizard style user interface, a command line interface and adds itself to the right click menu so that you can conveniently package (and optionally e-mail) a file from Windows Explorer.

Visit the Mimar Sinan web site for an online tutorial and to download the evaluation version

Paquet Builder

Paquet Builder is available in a commercial editon and a free edition for personal use and shareware

PaquestBuilder from G.D.G. Software not only creates self extracting packages, but also can run several setup programs back to back, perform additional tasks and may be customized in many ways. The personal edition is free for small companies and shareware authors.

Visit G.D.G. Software to get more information and download the evaluation version

WinZip Self Extractor

WinZip and WinZip SelfExtractor are commercial products by WinZip Computing, Inc.

There are several ZIP utilities that can create self extracting executables for windows. In my opinion, WinZip is the best. It supports 16 and 32 bit windows, code signing and password protection. WinZip 7.0 can even create self-extractors that span multiple diskettes.

Visit WinZip Computing, Inc. to get more information and download the evaluation version

Microsoft IExpress

IExpress is available from Microsoft Corp. as free download

This very versatile tool is included in the InetSDK and the Internet Explorer Adiministration Kit (IEAK) that is available free of charge for registered members of the Microsoft Sitebuilder Network.

InstallShield PackageForTheWeb

PackageForTheWeb (PFTW) has been discontinued and is no longer available. It has been replaced by the "Compact" project type and the "single file executable" option in InstallShield products.

Download Enhancements

EspressoDownload

EspressoDownload is a commercial product sold by SWsoft

EspressoDownload provides the simple and reliable way to distribute the arbitrary software installations over the Internet. User downloads and runs small utility which in turn manages the smart download of the overall package. Product was successfully tested with packages based on InstallShield Pro 5.x, 6, InstallFromTheWeb, Windows Installer, WinZip Self-Extractor.

Key features:

• intuitive wizard-style interface
• interrupt-resistant download - you can proceed download later at any moment, nothing is downloaded twice
• choice to download from one of several sites - started downloading from one place you can proceed from another one
• split package, if needed - EspressoDownload can collect the chunks into one file automatically
• the size of utility is small - up to 60K (using commercial executable compressors)
• quite easy to prepare package for distribution - all settings are hardcoded, but no need to recompile utility

Visit the SWsoft web site to get more information and download a free trial version

InstallFromTheWeb

InstallShield InstallFromTheWeb (IFTW) is no longer available as a separate tool. Instead, improved One-Click-Install technology is built into InstallShield Developer and InstallShield Professional.

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