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 $

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 $

Instyler Ex-it! for Windows Installer is a powerful helper application to create single executable files from your Windows Installer (msi, msp, msm) files. You can create an executable package file that performs a version checking on the user's Windows Installer Service. Any prompts and language texts on the wizard pages can be adapted, a silent mode is also available.

• License: Commercial
• Language: English
• Release: 2002-04-30
• Size: 741 Kb
• Cost: 19.00 $

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 $

Ghost Installer is full featured deployment solution with extremely friendly and powerful user interface, compact installer core and unique setup customization features: - Wide variety of project wizards to make deployment easier - Simple and powerful gDesigner IDE - Installing of .NET runtime, applications, assemblies and Visual Studio components

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-04-13
• Size: 18 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

SkinCrafter Installer is easy to use and well organized freeware developer tool meant for skinning of install packages created with Windows installer. SkinCrafter Installer uses SkinCrafter engine for skins implementation. SkinCrafter performs skinning Windows applications, allowing absolute visual customizations. In combination with SkinCrafter library you can get complete package: skinned installer + skinned end-user application.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-07-28
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: Free

Auto Installer is great for installations! It is simple and easy to use yet very customizeable. You can incorporate background images, sound, and launch up to 3 applications afterwards plus a whole lot more!

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-25
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: Free

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 $

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 $

Smart Install Maker is a powerful and easy in use tool, creating installation packages with plain user interface. The program can produce professional installers of minimal size, with high degree of file compression and gratifying to the eye user interface.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish
• Release: 2006-11-09
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 89.99 $

MSN Emoticons Installer is a utility for preview, and install high qualitative additional emoticons for MSN Messenger.It has hundreds of MSN Messenger emoticons. You can select a favourite pack of emotions and install automatically into your MSN Messenger account.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-06-03
• Size: 746 Kb
• Cost: 10.00 $

MSN Winks Installer is a program that allows you to preview, and install additional Winks for MSN Messenger. It has hundreds of MSN Messenger winks. you can select a favourite wink to install into your MSN Messenger account. We will add more winks in the future.You can check the new Winks and install it when we add them. Try this fresh pack of winks for MSN Messenger today and liven up your instant messaging conversations.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-09-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 10.00 $

Tarma Installer creates stand-alone software installers for Microsoft® Windows® platforms, with a small distribution size, a straightforward and clean user interface, and smart install and uninstall behavior. Requires no scripting; includes an intuitive and comprehensive development environment with extensive preflight checking to suit novices and experts alike.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-03-03
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 149.00 $

Installer Design Studio reduces the cost of application ownership and software distribution by simplifying the creation, modification and deployment of application installers. With a comprehensive tool set, administrators can intuitively create, develop and modify Windows Installer (MSI) packages ready for distribution to Windows desktops, enterprise-wide.

• License: Demo
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-05-15
• Size: 12 Mb
• Cost: 499.00 $

Contains everything a Delphi Developer expects from a professional Installer. Enjoy the integrated Object Pascal Scripting language and Studio. Installer inheritance, download on demand, integrated automatic upgrade, wizards, Dialog templates and designer, Editor, Debugger, event handlers, properties. Independent of Windows and Internet Explorer. Version Manager, internationalizing, digital signing, API , DLL, ActiveX controls, COM etc, etc.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-02-07
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: Free

Advanced Installer Professional 4.5 is 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.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-08
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 249.00 $

Advanced Installer For Java 4.5 is a Windows Installer authoring tool with built-in support for Java applications, integrating them fully into the Windows OS and making them look and feel just like a native application.The install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-08
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

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 $