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Installations created for Windows Installer dramatically differ from traditional installations, which often results in completely starting over to create a new MSI installation for a legacy application. InstallShield Repackager captures the data placed on your system during installation and converts it into a Windows Installer package, which you can then customize and distribute according to your organization's needs.
With this Premier Edition-only feature, you can eliminate the tedious steps involved in re-creating your entire installation—simply run your legacy application installation from InstallShield Repackager. Automatically repackage any setup to a fully compliant MSI package to ensure that your installations are compatible with all Windows OS, including Windows Vista.
Repackaging a legacy setup involves monitoring the execution of a non-Windows Installer setup and converting changes made by the setup into a Windows Installer file. Repackager comes with the Repackaging Wizard for accomplishing this task. Using this Wizard, you can select the repackaging method (either Snapshot or Installation Monitoring), specify the setup(s) you want to repackage, and run the setup(s). When the Repackaging Wizard has finished its analysis, a Repackager project (.irp) file is automatically created, which can then be modified or converted to an InstallShield Editor project (.ism) for further editing, or converted directly to a Windows Installer package (.msi).
