Install time tricks

[nanashi16]

Hi,

I am newish to installing software and I have been using installaware and it has made my life so much easier. I have a question about number of files and tricks to make my installation install faster.

At current count on of my install packages installs just over 20,000 files taking up 450ish mb of space (compresses down to 86 mb, ). My installs are taking, including uninstalling the old version, about 45 to 60 min.

Any ideas on ways to make this whole process go faster? I know its a general question I don't know where to start.

Thanks for any tips or ideas.

Steven

[MichaelNesmith]

That is a bit of a pain with MSI setups. MSI introduces quite a bit of registry overhead for as much as each file that gets installed. Using wildcards might be of help for you in your Install Files commands, but other than that, were are stuck with basic MSI performance specs.

[nanashi16]

ok, that is what I thought. Sadly I am using wildcards already. Oh well, thought I would ask if others had the same issue.

Thanks for the reply

[gareth.hayter]

How about zipping the files into a one zip file which is added to the install, then unzip the file as a final step in the instalation. That way you'd bypass the extra overhead of interacting with the registry for each file.

Regards,
Gareth.

[MichaelNesmith]

Sure, you could use the Extract 7Zip Archive command for this purpose.