Did I miss information about InstallRite?

[gengo]

I searched 'Installrite' [no quotes] and the results were too general. I searched 'Installrite Office' [no quotes] and there were no results.

What are the limitations of using this program? I have successfully made an 'install package' of Acrobat Reader, WinRAR, Diskmanager, Nero, and a few other programs. However, I recently made one for Medieval - Total War - Viking Invasion and it says that it cannot read the file. The file is over 1gb, so could that be the problem?

I also wonder about making a pack of Adobe Creative Suite and / or Office 2003, but would such a method work with these programs? What about XP Antispy? Norton 2004?

Can I take a snapshot, then copy files from a CD/DVD drive to a folder on my HD [such as a plugin folder to the appropriate Azureus directory] and then make a package of just that?

Thanks in advance for any and all help. I just would like to know the limitations of this piece of software.

[mazin]

For me, it failed with NAV Pro 2004. Everything was ok except activation, despite I installed it on the same machine!

It, also, failed with Winamp 5.0!

[gengo]

Thanks for the response.

If you do not mind me answering, what other programs did you try that were successful? If you could, list every successful package you made with InstallRite. Do you recommend just using application switches instead of this program? Just curious.

Thanks again.

[mazin]

Do you recommend just using application switches instead of this program?

Silent switches, like /qb, /S, etc.., are good ONLY in case you are satisfied with default installation features of a product.

If you are not satisfied with features installed by default when using a silent switch, then you'd better use a script like JS, VBS, AI, ect...

As you can see, I suggest repackaging (with InstallRite or whatever) to be the last approach in case you don't like silent switches or scripts.

However, the main reason I started using InstallRite for is to repackage filters for Adobe Photoshop. I use many of them and it's tiring and boring to install them.

One last word concerning InstallRite is to install the KITS on a similar system you create them on.

If you could, list every successful package you made with InstallRite.

Sure!

ACDSee 4.0.1 Power Pack Suite

Ad-Aware 6 Pro Build 181

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 ME

Adobe Reader 6.0

Adrenaline CamouFlage 1.01

Adrenaline NightVision 1.02

Adrenaline SnowFlakes 1.01

Adrenaline SnowScape 1.03

Alien Skin Image Doctor 1.0

Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0

AT Font Genet 2.0

AV Bros. Page Curl 1.2

AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0

BlackICE 2.9.car

Download Mage 1.85c

DreamSuite 1.0

DreamSuite 2.0

DreamSuite AutoEye

DreamSuite AutoGel

Extensis PhotoText 2.0 Solo

Eye Candy 4000

FastFolders 2.66

FinePrint 5.06

FocalBlade 1.02

F-Prot for DOS (updated 9.1.2004)

Genesis V2 PROps V2.00

Grain Surgery 2.0

HardCopy Pro 2.1

Jasc Virtual Painter 3.21

Kangaroo

KPTX Equalizer (with KPT Effects 7 Copied )

LogoManager 1.32

Mass Downloader 2.3

Microangelo 5.58

Microsoft Dolphin Office Assistant

Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft Office 97 Animated Cursors

Microsoft Office 97 Clipart Extra

Microsoft Office 97 Sounds

Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engine 4.0 (English)

Modem Booster 5.0

NeoTrace Pro 3.25

Norton Personal Firewall 2001 (updated 18.1.2004)

pdfFactory Pro 2.01

Phone Plus 5.4.1

PlaidMaker Plus 1.1

QuickTime 6.0

RealPlayer 8.0 Plus

Sinedots

SPCHAPI (Speech Engine)

Stay Connected! 3.5

SuperBlade Pro 1.0

Teleport Pro 1.29

TextBridge Classic 2.0

Ulead iPhoto Plus 4.0

UltraEdit 9.00a

Webshots Desktop 2.0

WinImage 6.10.6100

WinRAR 2.9

WinZip 8.1

WinZip Self-Extractor 2.2