creating msi with wininstallle

[eyeball]

does anybody have any experience with wininstallle?

i am going to use it to create some msi packages, i am going to use a virtual pc with windows xp on it on my machine that has xp on.

do i need to run the progam wininstallle.exe from my machine? or can i run it on the virtual pc?

any help would be greatly appreciated as i have no experience with this program

thanks

[cluberti]

Do everything in the virtual machine, including installing/running WinInstall LE. It's a pretty simple program - you launch WinInstall, start the application capture, install the application, and then stop the capture in WinInstall LE. After making some minor cosmetic tweaks to your app, WinInstall LE will create the .msi package for you, and you should be set. Make sure to test the .msi in a different virtual machine, though, before using it on a real PC. There are some applications out there that just don't install properly once they've been captured.

[eyeball]

thanks ever so much for that

ill try it 2moro,

the reason im doing it (if your interested) is because i want to create .msi packages for a few programs we use on every machine we build for clients and then just install them via group policy

thanks again