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Create Windows 7 Compatible Software Installers with Setup Factory 8.2

(WINNIPEG) – Indigo Rose Software today announced the launch of Setup Factory 8.2 with full support for Microsoft Windows 7. Software developers can now build a single software installer program that works just as well on the latest Windows operating systems (Windows 7, Server 2008, Vista) as it does on legacy systems like Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP. This makes Setup Factory 8.2 a unique solution for software developers who require the widest compatibility for their setup programs.

An easy-to-use Project Wizard helps programmers create ready-to-build software installation projects in minutes. They can simply drag and drop files and folders onto the project window and they’re ready to build. Setup Factory outputs a compact, single-file setup.exe that is ideal for distribution via Internet download, CD/DVD-ROM, USB memory keys and corporate networks.

“Indigo Rose is excited to launch this new version of Setup Factory,” said Colin Adams, President at Indigo Rose Software Design Corporation. “Making Setup Factory compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 ensures that our customers can deploy their software development projects on the widest variety of Windows operating systems possible. It’s just one more reason that over 20,000 companies worldwide rely on Indigo Rose’s software development tools to help deliver their digital products.”

While retaining Setup Factory’s popular visual development environment, Setup Factory 8.2 also includes a fully featured scripting engine. It has everything from “for, repeat and while” loops, to “if/else” conditions, functions, variables and associative arrays. With a library of over 360+ functions and a fill-in-the-blanks style Action Wizard, advanced installers can be created to handle even the most sophisticated installation tasks. High-level actions are provided to make registry changes, call DLL functions, execute programs, start and stop services, interact with web scripts, enumerate processes, parse XML data, download files and much more.

With Setup Factory 8.2’s Visual Dialog Editor and Skin/Theme System, software engineers can create installers that even the marketing department can approve of. Developers can either create custom install wizard dialogs from scratch, or select from 20+ ready-made dialogs such as license agreement acceptance and serial number verification. Once the dialog sequence has been created, installation developers can then choose from dozens of pre-made visual themes, letting them customize background images, fonts, logos, colors and other style settings with a single click.

Other features of Setup Factory 8.2 include high performance LZMA data compression with up to 300% better compression ratios and 20% faster installation speed, automatic Authenticode signing, support for files larger than 2GB, an extensive Windows Installer MSI action library, auto-detecting international language support, HTML-based project reports, full uninstaller, silent install mode, and support for automated builds.

Setup Factory 8.2 sells for $395 (US$) per developer or $995 for the Five Developer Team Pack. It can be purchased through all major software development tools resellers, or directly from Indigo Rose Software at http://www.indigorose.com. A free 30-day trial download is available from the company’s website.

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Overview of Setup Factory 8.2

Setup Factory 8 is the result of over a decade of experience in creating software installation tools. Unlike other installer builders that require week-long training courses in order to get up to speed, Setup Factory was designed to be fast and easy to use. By pairing a visual layout of your software’s files and folders with a point-and-click interface, the entire process becomes completely logical and absolutely painless. What’s more, Setup Factory creates a compact, single-file setup.exe that runs on any version of Windows from 95 to Vista and is perfect for distribution by web download, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and LAN. Setup Factory 8.0 is simply a better way to make software installers. We guarantee it or you’ll get your money back.

• Rapid Installer Development. With Setup Factory 8, you simply drag and drop your files onto the project window, and click on the publish button. That’s it. It’s really that simple. You’ll be up and running in minutes. The Project Wizard can even walk you through it. Whether you want to create shortcut icons on the desktop and start menu, or configure an uninstaller in the control panel’s Add/Remove Programs panel, it’s all just a few clicks away. The same thing goes for adding in third-party runtime modules, with support for Visual Basic, .NET and more.

• Powerful Enough For Any Installation Task. When you want the ultimate in power and flexibility, you can turn to the all-new scripting engine found in Setup Factory 8. This easy to understand language features everything from loops and conditions to functions, variables and arrays. It’s packed with hundreds of functions to handle everything from text file editing to system registry changes. You can execute programs, call DLL functions, manipulate strings, enumerate processes, interact with web scripts and much more. And thanks to the fill-in-the-blanks style Action Wizard, anybody can create powerful installers that handle complex installation tasks with ease.

• Fully Customizable. While other installer builders make you settle for the same old look, Setup Factory 8 includes an innovative visual theme system and full featured dialog editor. Choose from dozens of pre-made themes or even make your own. It’s as easy as viewing a live dialog preview and picking your favorite style. You can configure everything from fonts and banners to graphics, colors and much more. Whether you want your installers to look corporate, modern or artistic, you can do it with ease.

• Trusted and Reliable. We’ve been making software installation tools since the days of Windows 3.0. We’ve learned a lot over the years. That’s why you can count on Setup Factory to make sure your software installation process is as smooth and trouble-free as possible. In fact, there are hundreds of millions of our setup.exe files out there. That’s a lot of trust. And each one is proudly serving as a banner for its company’s reputation. It’s something we take very seriously. You can leverage our years of experience making rock-solid software installers by choosing Setup Factory 8.

Download the Free Trial and Get Started Now!

The best way to experience the value of Setup Factory is to try it. You can download the free trial version of Setup Factory by clicking here. The free trial version will continue to work for a period of 30 days, so you have plenty of time to build projects and see for yourself what a great tool it is. There is no other software in its class which is easier to use, or faster to work with!

Competitive Position

Many software installation tools have reached a point where they’ve become overly complicated. To some extent this is a reflection of the task at hand; it takes some very advanced features to get software installed safely on a modern system. Unfortunately, for many other tools “advanced” has come to mean “complicated.”

At Indigo Rose, we want to empower developers, not confuse them. Setup Factory has been designed and perfected over 15 years to make installation and deployment intuitive and straightforward. Like competing tools, it has a feature list full of advanced install abilities and technology. But what’s unique to Setup Factory is the way it presents all of these features. Unlike other tools, there are no hurdles in the way of just getting things done.

Everything from checking system requirements to creating multilingual translations is handled in a way that makes sense. All of the advanced features are there, from the innovative visual skinning system, to the high-performance scripting engine. But with Setup Factory, the basics are still easy, and building a normal installer is still a quick five minute, drag-and-drop affair. Even Setup Factory’s intelligent screen layout system keeps things simple. To make room for text, you don’t have to worry about positioning controls or moving things around; you just type it in, and it works.

The end-user experience is just as straightforward. Setup Factory is completely self-contained and does not require any preinstalled services. In fact, its setup executables are compatible all the way back to Windows 95 without any external dependencies – including MSI. It doesn’t take forever to extract, it doesn’t need to be bootstrapped with anything, it doesn’t depend on services which might be turned off, and it doesn’t leave behind any messy uninstallation problems.

For years we’ve been winning customers from other installation tools because of our strong user community and our refreshingly personal product support. Like Setup Factory, this is driven by a single, simple question: if we were our customers, how would we want it to work?

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Download a Free Trial Version of Setup Factory 8.2

The best way to decide if Setup Factory 8 is right for you, is to download the free 30-day trial version. The trial version is fully functional, so you’ll be able to really “kick the tires” and see what it can do.

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