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“Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for creating quick and user-friendly installers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a script-based system that adds a very small overhead, only 34 KB. It features LZMA compression, support for multiple languages, and an easy-to-use plugins system”

The latest release 2.10 features auto completion in the directory page, a new version of VPatch that compiles on POSIX, and the usual collection of bugfixes, improvements, and translation updates.


The key (differentiating) features are:

• Support for ZLib, BZip2 and LZMA data compression (files can be compressed individually or together)
• Customizable user interface (dialogs, fonts, backgrounds, icons, text, checkmarks, images etc.)
• Fully multilingual, support for multiple languages (including RTL langauges) in one installer. More than 40 translations are already available, but you can also create your own.
• Page system: You can add standard wizard pages or custom pages
• User selection of installation components, tree for component selection
• Multiple install configurations (usually Minimal, Typical, Full), and custom configuration
• Installer self-verification using a CRC32 checksum
• Small overhead over compressed data size (34 KB with default options)
• Ability to display a license agreement in text or RTF format
• Ability to detect destination directory from the registry
• Easy to use plug-in system (lots of plug-ins for creation of custom dialogs, internet connections, HTTP downloading, file patching, Win32 API calls etc. are included)
• Installers can be as large as 2GB
• Optional silent mode for automated installations
• A preprocessor with support for defined symbols, macro’s, conditional compilation, standard predefines
• Installers have their own VMs that let you write code which support wide variety of features like DLL/ActiveX control registration/deregistration or Reboot support, including delete or rename on reboot

Excerpted from full feature list.

Download here.

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