InstallAware Wizard is slow - explanation on compression

[jessican]

Hi! So, I'm building a single file compressed installation. and I find that my installer is really very slow during the initial phase
"InstallAware Wizard is verifying the contents of this setup package...."
This process seems to take ages... My setup/application isn't very complicated either.

I'm hoping someone could give some suggestions as to how should I approach fixing this and improving the installer's speed performance.

I know that I've seen in the project settings, build compression settings.. Mine's currently at Best. I don't entirely understand the implications of the expressions of the different compression levels..

If I chose to reduce the compression from best would this improve the speed? What negative effects would reducing this have?

Is there a better option to improve the speed ?

[FrancescoT]

Dear Jessican,

of course, higher is the compression level and more time will be needed to decompress the setup package at initialization time.

Obviously, the size of the generated output file will be inversely proportional to compression level used.

Higher compression = smaller output file size
Lower compression = bigger output file size

Regards