For quick and easy installations that support today’s technologies, InstallShield is the industry standard. InstallShield enables you to build reliable installations in record time, and avoid installation-related application errors by keeping current with support for the latest technology.

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far it's proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.

I should stress that this application is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. It will never replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. What it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

Acresso Installshield is the industry-standard tool for ensuring that your Windows software products are correctly installed, configured, updated, and eventually uninstalled on your customers' systems. The top-tier InstallShield Premier is the most powerful, capable, and widely-used edition among installation developers worldwide.

Overview
According to IBM, 28% of application failures are related to installation and configuration errors. These errors, often caused by homegrown or out-of-date setups, can significantly increase your support costs while frustrating customers.

InstallShield is the industry standard for MSI installations. Deployed on over 500 million desktops worldwide, InstallShield technology lets you author high-quality installations for Windows and extend them to configure database servers, Web services, mobile devices, and more.

InstallShield is available in three editions: Premier, Professional, and Express. Its IDE is also available in three languages: English, German, and Japanese.

Optimize your MSI installations for Windows Vista
• InstallShield has the capabilities to easily create Vista Logo Certified setups, including support for the Restart Manager, UAC, Vista validation testing, Windows Installer 4.5, and more.

InstallShield is the industry-standard tool for ensuring that your Windows software products are correctly installed, configured, updated, and eventually uninstalled on your customers' systems. The top-tier InstallShield Premier is the most powerful, capable, and widely-used edition among installation developers worldwide.

With support for the latest technologies, significant performance and quality improvements, and functionality that lets you fully leverage the capabilities of Windows Vista, InstallShield Premier is the most robust Edition ever.

InstallShield Premier Edition gives you all the capabilities of our Profession Edition, plus tons of exclusive functionality, including:

Avoid common installation issues—Validators in the InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite alert you if your installation violates any best practices guidelines.
Maintain a clean build system—With the stand alone build engine, you can use only the part of InstallShield that compiles installations.
Improve your end user's experience—With refreshed end-user dialog designs.
Easily convert legacy installations into MSI packages—With InstallShield Repackager, you can easily create MSI packages.
Localize your installation—InstallShield's multilingual support lets you create installations for 35 runtime languages from one installation project.

Quickly roll out new installations—With network repositories, it's now easy to build a repository of common elements that multiple installation authors can access and reuse in projects.

Create trial versions without modifying code—With the try-and-die type of trialware's simple configuration changes, you can easily offer potential customers a fully functional. trial version of your product (After the predetermined trial limit has been reached on an end user's machine, the trial version automatically expires).