Knowledge Base
This section contains in-depth information about InstallMate. If you cannot find the answer you are looking for in this section, then please also try the following:
- Frequently Asked Questions
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- Send an email message to technical support
- Supported technologies
- File installation and registration
- Installing files
- Recommended installation folders
- Installing and Registering ActiveX Controls
- Installing and Registering Fonts
- Installing and Registering COM Servers and Type Libraries
- Installing and Registering Device Drivers
- Uninstalling files created by the application
- How to search for a file on the target system
- About INSTALLDIR and PRIMARYFOLDER
- .Net and Windows side-by-side assemblies
- Shortcut installation
- Installing Shortcuts
- Standard shortcut locations
- Guidelines for shortcut locations
- How to create a program group for your product
- How to let the user to change the program group name
- How to define a shortcut for your product
- Shortcuts to the (un)installer
- How to define shortcuts to files you don't install
- Installing an Internet (URL) Shortcut
- System editing
- Installation package and Setup.exe
- Pre-installation actions
- Uninstallation issues
- Customization and localization
- Custom actions
- Other installation issues
- Previous versions and upgrading
- Installing third-party packages
- Installers and subinstallers
- Installing Third-Party Software
- How to install the .Net runtime
- How to install MSDE 2000 (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine)
- Managing your InstallMate project
- Project items