NSIS 3.00 Alpha 2

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is usually a professional open source system for creating, managing, and distributing Microsoft windows installers by both equally home users as well as professionals who will use NSIS-packaged products for commercial functions. It is designed to be as smaller, as flexible as is possible, intuitive to use for anyone, and can effortlessly create installer packages which have been well-suited for web distribution. Among many useful base functions and tools, users from all over the world have presided the idea multi-compression algorithm strategy, customizable installer IU (both personally or picking 3 selected configurations), good plugin technique, wizard helpers for novices, automated uninstaller help, and support for installers that could hold up to be able to 2 GB involving data.

Being a owner's first experience along with your product, a stable as well as reliable installer can be an important component involving successful software. With NSIS it is possible to create such installers that are designed for doing everything that is needed to setup your software program. Its main software enables users to be able to easily pick every person component of its installer package, streamlined method of optimizing every facet of your installer, and instantaneous access to expansive documentation, online help, designer center, and plugin implementation area.

NSIS is script-based and enables you to create the logic to address even the almost all complex installation jobs. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can produce web installers, contact Windows and additional software components, install or revise shared components and more. Bigger list involving features:

Support for ZLib, BZip2 and LZMA info compression (files could be compressed individually or perhaps together)
Uninstall help (installer can generate an uninstaller)
Customizable user interface (dialogs, fonts, backdrops, icons, text, checkmarks, images etc. )
Traditional and Modern wizard interface
Fully multilingual, support for numerous languages (including RTL languages) available as but also you can create your own.
Page system: You can contribute standard wizard websites or custom websites
User selection involving installation components, tree for component choice
Multiple install options (usually Minimal, Normal, Full), and custom made configuration
Installer self-verification employing a CRC32 checksum
Modest overhead over condensed data size (34 KB having default options)
Ability to display a licence agreement in word or RTF formatting
Ability to find destination directory from your registry
Easy to work with plug-in system (lots involving plug-ins for generation of report patching, Win32 API cell phone calls, etc. are included)
Installers can be as large as 2GB
And much more...