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Several dozens of custom actions let you do most everything you want: read/write from/to Windows registry, create Windows & Internet shortcuts, execute multiple programs, open document files and Web pages, display message boxes and readme texts in Rich Text Format (WYSIWYG), ask your end users for folders, options, passwords, set file destination and conditions on extraction, register shared files and self-register files, check file properties and integrity (CRC32), prompt users for password and information, use If/Then and Goto statements, restart computer, call external plug-ins to extend functionality...

Add New Custom Action

Visually manage custom actions using the powerful editor. Add, remove, modify, move, copy/paste single or several actions, import/export custom actions without requiring any additional knowledge. Even if custom actions are similar to scripting, you have not to learn any special language.

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Change file attributes; create custom folders; remove specific or multiple files; display license agreements; remove folders; check for files, folders and registry key's existence; execute document (show Web pages) files; read or write information from/to Windows registry; read or write .ini entries; copy or rename files; add extra commands for the uninstaller, store information into external files...
Ability to work with variables: you can use variables to store data, read/write from/to the Windows Registry, read/write to .ini files, perform conditional (if/then) tests, use goto label jumps... Paquet Builder includes a variable manager that lets you add or remove your own variables. Learn more
Possibility to add a uninstaller to your packages: end users can remove the changes (unpacked files, registry entries, shortcuts, self-registered files...) your package made. This uninstaller is fully customizable and useful if you create a setup routine for your software program. You may even add uninstall commands to remove additional files or run external programs, in order to perform additional cleaning.

Configure Uninstaller

Group your files into components and let your users decide which ones should be installed on their computer. Components are managed using the file manager, and have special properties that allow you to control their behavior (whether associated files will be unpacked or not for instance).
Determine the destination folder for each file (you can extract ActiveX controls to the Windows System folder for example) and optionally you can associate a conditional variable to each file that decides whether the file should be extracted or not. It allows you to group your files into components like in setup routines.

File Properties

Packages can register shared files and self-registered ActiveX and DLL files. The uninstaller can safely remove them if they are not used anymore.
Easily and visually manage shortcuts and registry entries to create. You can moreover import/export .REG files.
Read the file destination path from the Windows Registry, register more ActiveX controls with batch files execution, execute multiple Setup programs and then remove all temporary files, display the destination folder in a shell window after extracting files, show a Web page after a successful extraction, show a final dialog or message box, run an additional program (a.k.a. "final task") or display a file when the package closes.
In addition to the custom actions, you can run a document or an executable file, display prompt messages, create Windows shortcuts, write custom entries in the Windows registry if you do not want to work with custom actions.
Support for Windows INF Setups and Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) databases: Paquet Builder provides you with tools to automatically configure your setup project for executing these setup procedures instead of a traditional setup program. INF files are small setup scripts executed internally by Microsoft (R) Windows.
Install several Windows Installer MSI setups or MSP patches back to back. Check for the Windows Installer service and automatically download/install it if it is missing.

MSI plug-in

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