Setup Builder is the powerful, reliable, easy to use and cost effective solution for creating comprehesive, professional looking application installation procedures. Fully automated with optional components. Handles all the usual setup tool features and much more! Supports ODBC, OLE, VB5, VB6 + sound. Multi-lingual. Single file self-extracting executables for web distribution. Highly flexible.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Release: 2004-02-24
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 149.00 $

Don't be fooled by products costing twice as much. Setup Factory 7.0 has everything you need to make rock-solid professional software installers - and it's easier and faster to use. New project wizard, 20+ customizable screens, themes/skins, runtime modules, multilingual support, MD5 serial numbers, shortcut icons, single-file setup.exe for internet downloads, powerful scripting engine with 250+ functions, authenticode support and much more.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-03-12
• Size: 21 Mb
• Cost: 495.00 $

The InstallAware Setup Squeezer intelligently unpacks your Windows Installer setups, and then recompresses them using InstallAware's industry leading compression technology. Setup Squeezer is a fully automated, point-and-click wizard, which produces 15%-50% size savings on your setup packages. All this happens with you converting your setup projects - you can keep them in their own native format, and still benefit from InstallAware's compression.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-04-11
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

Deploying any kind of software application is one of the most complex tasks you face as a developer. It's difficult to prepare an application correctly for installation on every possible system configuration and provide deployment options. SetupBuilder 5.6 attempts to help you do it all.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
• Release: 2006-10-27
• Size: 17 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

The InstallAware Setup Squeezer intelligently unpacks your InstallShield setups, and then recompresses them using InstallAware's industry leading compression technology. Setup Squeezer is a fully automated, point-and-click wizard, which produces 15%-50% size savings on your setup packages. All this happens with you converting your setup projects - you can keep them in their own native format, and still benefit from InstallAware's compression.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-04-11
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

The QuickWizard control for the .net framework 2.0 allows developers to create complex WinForms wizards in record time. QuickWizard is fully integrated into the Visual Studio design-time environment using Smart Tags Panels making wizard creation a snip!. The control has a wealth of features allowing virtually unlimited visual styles. QuickWizard complies with the Microsoft Wizard 97 specification.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-12-16
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 80.00 $

Setup generation tool to visually design, build and test setups for any application on all Windows platforms. It supports file versioning, encryption, dependency checking, Start Menu and registry access and update, full uninstall and more.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2000-03-09
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 99.00 $

Can package and install not only programs but also all kind of files. Includes install and uninstall support for Windows 9.x/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003. Compress all files in a single executable. Setup overhead is less than 100 KB. What you see is what you get, easy visual configuration. Projects in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Galician, Hungarian and Dutch languages are included.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Spanish
• Release: 2006-08-04
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 39.00 $

Astrum InstallWizard is a versatile installation creation utility. AIW has a host of advanced features normally available only in the most expensive tools, such as Dialog editor and AutoUpdater. All the basic features (multilingual, single-exe, registry, shortcuts, ...) are naturally also supported. Although AIW is feature packed, the user interface is still intuitive allowing you to create professional looking installations in matter of minutes.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
• Release: 2006-08-15
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 49.00 $

InstallAware for Windows Installer can import existing MSI setup packages and let you customize their behavior. You may also import non-MSI setups using the integrated PackageAware tool which works by monitoring the changes a setup makes to the system. Using the redistributable automation interface, you may remotely build your setups over web pages, or directly on end-user machine's at run-time.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-06
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 1099.00 $

INF-Tool, the Setup Program Generator for Windows, lets you design full-featured program installations including Uninstall in seconds. Generates super-small setup packages thus making expensive and huge-sized Installation software (and long downloads for your users) obsolete. Comes with all typical software setup features and supports 26 languages - just check it out!

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Russian
• Release: 2002-08-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

InstallAware builds Windows Installer MSI setups with completely customizable user interfaces and unique dialog controls. Build non-rectangular or transparent wizards, display bitmap buttons, standard or custom animations, create tabbed dialogs like the new Office 12 installer. Insert native file/folder browsers just like those in Windows Explorer. Display interactive Flash and/or HTML progress billboards to entertain your users while installing!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-06
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 599.00 $

InstallAware creates Windows Installer MSI setups with easy MSIcode scripting. Instead of populating MSI databases to build your setup, or being stuck with the limitations of visual designers, use the intuitive MSIcode scripting environment to build your MSI installers. InstallAware will automatically convert your conditionally flowing MSIcode script into a legal Windows Installer MSI database at build time.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-06
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 349.00 $

The InstallAware MSI installer builds sophisticated, visually appealing setups with support for the latest technologies, including IIS, Microsoft/Oracle/MySQL database servers, Web Updates, Partial Web Deployment, DIFx Driver installs, Vista, 64bit, and one-click installation of complex application runtimes like Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 with Service Pack 1. Setups are compressed up to 67% smaller than their MSI installer counterparts.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-06
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 149.00 $

InstallAware is first to market with an IDE targeting Microsoft's open source WiX platform. WiX is used internally by Microsoft teams to build world-class installers such as Microsoft Office. Until today, WiX remained hard to use, as it did not provide a GUI but only command line tools. Now with the new WiXAware IDE by InstallAware, you too can use the same technology that Microsoft teams internally use to build software installers.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-18
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 499.00 $

Themed Wizard allows you to rapidly create wizard style interfaces in your .NET 2.0 WinForm application. With twelve included themes, designer navigation, and smart tags; Themed Wizard will make your WinForm application stand out from the crowd.

• License: Commercial
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-02
• Size: 5 Mb
• Cost: 89.95 $

Actual Installer is a professional tool for creating great-looking installation packages with incredible ease. The wizard-driven interface allows you to forget about tedious and time-consuming scripting - the program will take good care of this. Actual Installer features advanced capabilities, such as multilingual installations, registry and INI files modification, file associations, registering fonts, ActiveX components and much more!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-23
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 69.95 $

You can change your default VB6 setup program with this inproved setup program. It has a skin and it is multilingual (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese). The language is automatically swithched according to the user language. Yo will have to manually copy the setup1.exe file and replace the old file of the same name in your Visual Basic 6 installation folder. Read Readme.txt file inside the zip file for details.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Spanish
• Release: 2004-10-29
• Size: 179 Kb
• Cost: Free

ThunderSetup is a powerful setup builder that includes an easy-to-use IDE, a redistributable web updating utility and a visual Dialog Designer with a powerful scripting language. ThunderSetup supports multilingual setups and setups with multiple installation types. It can create single-file setups and disk-spanning setups and uses very good BZIP2 compression. And if this is not enough, it can be enhanced with DLL and EXE extensions.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-05-15
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 70.00 $

Setup Specialist offers you a powerful and flexible way to deploy your application to your customers. The advanced customization capabilities of its visual development environment give you complete control of nearly any aspect of the setup process.Setup Specialist's setup programs run under any modern Win32 platform such as Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP providing you with a maximum of compatibility with the OS platforms of your customers.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German
• Release: 2004-03-30
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 99.00 $