Installation Speed

DanStutzman · Post by **DanStutzman** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:58 am

What settings outside of compression are known to slow down installation speed?

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:03 am

Windows Installer is transactional, therefore it will always be orders of magnitude slower than direct file copy (anybody voting for a pure Win32 setup engine for InstallAware?)

On the InstallAware side, there's a few things you can do to accelerate things - enable compiler optimizations (thus reducing MSI processing overhead), and disable rollback and other MSI features (as discussed in the help file pre-defined variables section).

DanStutzman · Post by **DanStutzman** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:26 pm

Cheers Mike.