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InstallShield­ / Windows Installer setup file.

Wiki:

Setup.exe is the setup file for installation of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), in the act of making the program ready for execution. Because the process varies for each program and each computer, programs (including operating systems) often come with an installer.

Some computer programs can be executed by simply copying them into a folder stored on a computer and executing them. Other programs are supplied in a form unsuitable for immediate execution and therefore need an installation procedure.

Working:

Setup.exe is an executable file for Microsoft Windows based operating systems, whose work includes following operations

  • Making sure that necessary system requirements are met
  • Checking for existing versions of the software
  • Creating or updating program files and folders
  • Adding configuration data such as configuration files, Windows registry entries or environment variables
  • Making the software accessible to the user, for instance by creating links, shortcuts or bookmarks
  • Configuring components that run automatically, such as daemons or Windows services
  • Performing product activation

Usage:

The tag can include programming related problems of publishing a setup.exe file and other development related problems. Please avoid using tag for installation related problems. Please note https://superuser.com/ is another stackexchange website where you can ask such installation related problems.

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Creating a installer which will run a specific batch file

I need a help from you. Here is my total scenario: I have created a batch file which will install some digital certificate. Now I need to make a one click installer(.exe) which will extract all the files (my provided digital certificates and bat…
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InstallShield Professional Edition - Custom Action - Setup.exe vs MSI

I have a windows forms application (Add-In Express Solution) for which I have created an InstallShield setup project which uses custom actions (Auto generated by Add-In Express). The custom actions are launching executable files (The executable…
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Problems trying to load Setup.exe in windows xp though my batch file

When I try and run my setup.exe file from the location C:\DMSDMSOffice1-16\Setup.exe it always conflicts with the setup.exe in the system32 folder. But as an example the :Measurement part works perfect. How do I get around this? Here is part of my…
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Published project requires visual studio installed

I have made a WPF project which uses components which require .Net 4.0 and another that requires .Net 4.5 I have set my project to target .Net 4.5 I have made an setup.exe with both InnoSetup and MSI (InstallShield) installer. It seems that only…
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Change URL of Prerequisites from ClickOnce Application

I want to know if is possible to change the Update URL of deployed ClickOnce application modifying the deployed files. I know that the application have two parts: The compiled files with .application and .deploy files The setup.exe and the folders…
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Set a password for Setup.exe

I added a Setup Project to my existing Project to make a Setup out of it. Can I protect this Setup.exe with a password before you can install it? I'm using Visual Studio 2010.
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Create a setup.exe file without any dependent files

I am a first time user of this group and so pardon me for any mistakes and unclear statements. What I am trying to do is to create single setup.exe (not msi) using installshield. But when I build the project what I get is other files along…
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Find SQL 2008 setup.exe for command line uninstall

I'm writing a little .Net app that stores data in a named SQL instance. I need to be able to uninstall the instance programatically. It's easy enough to call setup.exe with the uninstall parameters (I figured them out in this post:…
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clickonce app.publish\setup.exe have a wrong modified date in the past

I have an error when trying to publish a WPF application on VS2010 ultimate with clickonce: error MSB3169: An error occurred generating a bootstrapper: Unable to begin updating resource for bin\Debug\app.publish\setup.exe I notice that my…
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How to make a batch file wait until setup finished

I tried to put this into a example.bat call= blahblah.exe call= example.bat /wait blahblah.exe but the above does not wait, it will call the example.bat as soon as the blahblah.exe runs. I want to start the example.bat when the WHOLE blahblah.exe…
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Generate Setup.exe for ClickOnce application using msbuild

Publishing the ClickOnce application via msbuild using command msbuild /t:publish /p:BootstrapperEnabled=true;PublishDir=C:\publish\;PublishUrl=C:\publish Throws the error: error MSB3484: Signing target 'bin\Debug\app.publish\setup.exe' could not…
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Android SDK Setup.exe will not run

Running XP sp3 when i click SDK Setup.exe command line promt comes up and goes away fast and nothing else happens is there a fix for this ?
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why my tcplistener can't listen. when i build a setup.exe file of my app?

i wrote a program that use TcpListener. when my app run with C# program, other app and other device can connect (from an other computer or other device) to my app and my TcpListener can listen and respond them. but when i build a setup.exe file from…
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