Because i want all my settings and updates to be added. Otherwise i need to do a huge configuration before its usable. My Av, F-Secure, does not support any ways to do so. About the registry stuff - im doing it previously in a virtual machine. To import the whole registry into a fresh installed windows wouldnt work, and if - then there would be a ton of vm services and registry entries. From the upper program i could export the registry and edit it afterwards. Then i created a new dir on desktop, called it WinRar for example and added all the files which got installed in the same structure such as on my c device. For example a folder called users, then administrator or all users, then microsoft, windows, start menu and so on ... After all i went back on top of it, created a batchfile in the structure windows/temp and start it automatically after extraction to add all registry stuff about winrar which i captured before, such as right click menue entries, "open with" stuff and so on. At least i packed it into a SFX archive. Now all files and directories get extracted into their "should be" destination, and after the registry gets imported, silently for sure. But that took me half a hour ... i wish there was a faster way to do so, without to copy any directory or file manually! If i would capture my visual studio that way it would take me a week or so i guess The biggest problem is that i want to create my own installer that way. If i use tools such as ThinApp or InstallRite they also can create installers, but i cant configure them as i want, also i cant modify them after they are completed (such as update single files or registry entries which will get imported). Sad that there are tools for everything, but not that.