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- [[NsisDDE plug-in]] | - [[NsisDDE plug-in]] | ||
- [[NsisXML plug-in]] | - [[NsisXML plug-in (by Wizou)|NsisXML plug-in]] | ||
- [[NsisFirewall plug-in]] | - [[NsisFirewall plug-in]] | ||
Revision as of 01:28, 23 August 2007
I'm the author of - NsisDDE plug-in - NsisXML plug-in - NsisFirewall plug-in
I also have extensive knowledge around creating full-featured professional installers using NSIS. This includes :
- Offer the user to uninstall the previous installation of the application before continuing
- Exiting running instance of application before (un)installation
- Switching gracefully to administrator rights (eventually asking user for credentials) before continuing installation (under 2000,XP,Vista)
- Deal gracefully with Vista UAC and large installers that usually slows down Windows Vista
- Running the program under logged user account (not administrator) at the end of installation
- Installing MS Visual CRT libraries (through MSI/MSM)
- Have a semi-automatic installation display on some command line switch (only show a progress bar in this case)
- Register application with Windows Firewall
- Running console process hidden during installation
- Check for Windows versions compatibility before installation
- Automatic generation of a NSH header by extracting Version Information from EXE files, useful for generating "Add/Remove program" and Installer Version information
- Tweaking the MUI finish page, or some custom page to download more stuff over Internet during installation
and much more NSIS installers tweaking to make them more user-friendly...