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Advanced Installer 4.4

Press Release

Release date: October 3, 2006

Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Installer Professional 4.4, a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems.

Windows Installer is a powerful, but very complex technology. Mastering it on your own takes months of hard work. That's where Advanced Installer comes to help. It creates a high level abstraction on top of the underlying technology. With a clean, simple user interface, each operation is logical and intuitive. Everything is done in the user interface, without complicated scripts to learn or arcane database tables to edit.

Advanced Installer is built on standard, open formats. The project files are saved as XML files for easy integration with source control systems. Advanced Installer is FREE for the simplest, most common usages. If additional capabilities are needed, they are available at some of the lowest prices in the industry.

What's new in Advanced Installer 4.4

This new version implements the LZMA compression algorithm in bootstrapper for up to 50% smaller install packages. Also new are the support for creating user accounts and groups, a dependency detector for EXE/DLL files, the Ukrainian and Czech localizations, a set of predefined launch conditions, and many more.

• LZMA compression algorithm in bootstrapper for up to 50% smaller install packages.


• Creating User Accounts and Groups.


• Setting Execute Permissions for IIS Web Site or Virtual Directory.


• Support for Shortcuts to Folders.


• Added a Dependency Detector for EXE and DLL files.


• Ukrainian and Czech localizations for MSI packages.


• Allow preventing an application from being registered with Windows Installer.


• Added Events Wizard in Dialog Editor.


• Support for parameterizable, Pseudo Formatted fields.


• Ability to have distinct Target and Source names for directories.


• Added Predefined Launch Conditions: memory, display, IE&IIS version, running in a VM.


• New dialog for easy editing of FileToSearch string in Prerequisites.


• Friendlier Updater behavior towards personal firewall programs.


• Dialog Editor click-by-click control tab order edit mode.


• Changing the ID of Featuress.


• Updater option: do not restart a closed Auto-Close Application after the update.

Advanced Installer Professional costs USD $249.
Advanced Installer Enterprise costs USD $499.

The application can be downloaded from:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/download.html

More details about the application can be found at:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com