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Use an installer like InstallShield. (There may be free or cheaper alternatives, but I haven't looked in a long time.) The installer takes care of housekeeping

by russell 18y ago

Use an installer like InstallShield. (There may be free or cheaper alternatives, but I haven't looked in a long time.) The installer takes care of housekeeping pains that will trip you up, like registry differences between XP and Vista, or cross platform installations.

flashgordon 18y ago
actually even with installshield you will have many unforeseen "dev to userland machine" problems... now you may have similar problems with testing on several browsers but a lot of these problems are a lot easier to mitigate...
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Zak 18y ago
It doesn't take care of users not knowing where their default download folder is though.
haasted 18y ago
AFAIR InstallShield is rather expensive, so it may be tempting to consider some free alternatives such as Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page) Windows Installer XML toolset (http://wix.sourceforge.net/ http://wix.sourceforge.net/)