Windows Installer Technology

The Windows Installer service is an operating system component that acts as a setup engine. The installer includes:

• an operating system-resident installation service
• a standard format for component management
• a management API (such as Hummingbird Setup Wizard) for applications and tools

The key benefits of this technology are:

• efficient management of shared resources
• consistent installation rules
• easy customization
• choice of what pieces of the application are installed
• the ability to diagnose and repair problems at run-time