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With setup prerequisite Editor in InstallShield, you have more options to specify exactly under what conditions a setup prerequisite should be installed in specific operating system versions.
The operating system version number is 5.2 for both Windows Server 2003 and 64-bit Windows XP.
As a result, prerequisites that were created in earlier versions of InstallShield detected 64-bit Windows XP as Windows Server 2003. Therefore prerequisites that required Windows Server 2003 could be installed on 64-bit Windows XP systems, and those that required Windows XP could not be installed on 64-bit Windows XP systems.
To resolve this issue, the Setup Prerequisite Editor in InstallShield has been enhanced to enable you to specify whether the target system is required to be a workstation, a server, or a domain controller.
To resolve this issue for an existing prerequisite that includes a Windows Server 2003 requirement or a 64-bit Windows XP requirement, open the prerequisite in the Setup Prerequisite Editor in InstallShield. On the Conditions tab, select the condition that needs to be corrected and click Modify. In the "Select the operating system on which to run the setup requirement" box, select the appropriate operating system requirement. Doing this correctly sets the new Product (OS) Type setting to the appropriate workstation, server, or domain controller value.
Easily check for and install any prerequisite applications or system
components before your installation is executed.
Choose from our
preconfigured setup prerequisites, like Internet Explorer version x and Java
v2 Runtime Environment. You can even choose to deploy your setup
prerequisites with your product or download them from the Web as needed. In
addition, you can design your own prerequisites from the ground up using the
powerful Setup Prerequisite Editor that is included in the Premier and
Professional editions of InstallShield.
Enhancements in InstallShield to the Setup Prerequisite Editor in InstallShield let you flexibly and easily redistribute setup prerequisites:
- Improved user interface give you menus that list easy-to-access commands.
- The new Behavior tab lets you specify whether end users may skip the prerequisite installation. You can also specify how the prerequisite installation should proceed if it appears that the target machine does or does not need to be restarted.
- Create prerequisite installation conditions for DWORD registry comparisons. You can also create conditions for 64-bit machines.
- Specify different methods for supplying each individual setup prerequisite in your installation. This enables you to store some of the setup prerequisite files on the source media; compress some of the setup prerequisite files into Setup.exe, to be extracted at run time; and download some of the setup prerequisite files.
- Assign release flags to setup prerequisites; include and exclude any combinations of setup prerequisites when you build different releases.
