Advanced Installer is a Windows Installer authoring tool. It offers a friendly and easy to use Graphical User Interface for creating and maintaining installation packages (EXE, MSI, etc.) based on the Windows Installer technology.

Advanced Installer simplifies the process of building Windows Installer packages by providing a very easy to use, high level interface to the underlying technology. The program implements all the Windows Installer rules and follows all the advised best practices.

With this simple, intuitive interface, building a Windows Installer package will take just a few minutes. You just have to follow a few simple steps, hit the Build button and your installer is ready to use.

Here are some key features of „Advanced Installer“:

MSI:
· Create valid MSI setups for your applications respecting all written and unwritten Windows Installer rules

UAC:
· Build installers that run flawlessly on Windows 7/Vista supporting their security model

Upgrades:
· Detect and upgrade older version of your product installed on the user’s machine. Prevent installs over newer ones

Side-by-Side:
· Create packages for different versions of your application that can be installed simultaneously and run side by side

Imports:
· Import from Visual Studio, InstallShield LE, WiX, Eclipse, Inno Setup, NSIS and regular MSI/MSM packages

Fonts:
· Register fonts in the Windows OS. Specify registration names for non-TrueType fonts

Environment Variables:
· Create, append or prepend user or system environment variables

Autoregister:
· Auto registration, for files that support it, can be scheduled at install time

Files and Folders:
· Install and uninstall files and folders. Set attributes, create shortcuts

Registry:
· Install and uninstall registry keys and entries

64-bit:
· Build setups that run and install on 32-bit processors or on the latest 64-bit Intel and AMD CPUs

Template projects:
· Create templates based on your current project and ready-to-use for your future projects

Add/Remove:
· Customize your application’s listing in the „Add/Remove Programs“ page of Control Panel

XML projects:
· They can be easily checked into a version control system and shared between multiple developers

Command Line:
· Build your release packages in completely automated scripts, like Make, Ant or NAnt

Run&Log:
· Launch your MSI package while pretty printing the full Windows Installer log

Launch Conditions:
· Visually specify conditions necessary (applications, frameworks, etc.) for your package to run

Smart Formatted Editing:
· Editing (MSI)Formatted fields offers reference auto-completion, syntax and error highlights and resolved value hints

Per-User/Per-machine:
· Create installers that can be install as required: per-user or per-machine if the user is Administrator

Include Merge Modules:
· Include frameworks, libraries and other prepackaged dependencies into your installers with just a few mouse clicks

Requirements:

· Pentium 4 class CPU
· 512 MB RAM
· 1024×768 screen resolution
· 256 MB hard drive space
· Windows Installer 2.0