Application Requirements (Application Information)

The Application Requirements page allows you to specify and enforce minimum hardware, software, and user levels before your application is allowed to install. This page can also be used to protect your setup with global passwords.

Managing Requirements

To specify hardware and software requirements, click the drop-down boxes next to a requirement category, and select the minimum requirement. To cancel a previously specified requirement, open the drop-down boxes again, and choose Don't Check.

Setup Encryption

InstallAware can produce strongly encrypted setups that utilize 256 bit AES encryption. To encrypt your setups, just enter a password into the 256-Bit Encryption Key field. Note that only compressed setup media may be encrypted.

Special Requirements

To require administrator privileges for installation, check the Require Administrator privileges for installation check-box. Otherwise, leave this box unchecked.

To check whether setup has full administrator rights on a Vista or newer operating system with UAC enabled, check the Vista User Account Control Elevation check-box. Otherwise, leave this box unchecked. Checking this box on older operating systems will cause setup to fail, even if setup does have full administrator rights. Checking this box on Vista or newer operating systems when UAC is disabled will require ordinary administrator rights for the check to succeed.

To create a native 64 bit installation which installs on AMD64/EM64T powered X64 platforms only, check the 64 bit operating system check-box. To create a 32 bit installation which installs natively on 32 bit operating systems, or in compatibility mode on 64 bit operating systems, leave this box unchecked. To create an installation which switches between 32 bit and 64 bit installation modes at runtime, use the Set 64 Bit Mode command in your setup script. To create an installation which checks for ARM64 powered X64 platforms, use the Get System Settings command in your setup script with the Windows on ARM capability test.

To disallow installations on virtualized hardware platforms, check the Non-virtual hardware check-box. This assures your setup will not run inside VMware, Virtual PC, and Hyper-V virtual machines. To let your setup run on virtual hardware, leave this box unchecked.

Scripting Details

The two-way integrated IDE emits or updates the underlying setup script every time the visual view is used. If you are using InstallAware scripting in your setups, the following information identifies the changes made by this visual page to your setup script.

Commands Used

This page emits the following types of scripting commands: Get System Settings, MessageBox, Set 64 Bit Mode, Terminate Install. Additional general scripting commands may be emitted.

Commands Required

This page does not require any scripting commands to be present, however some pre-existing commands may provide better operation. Template and wizard generated setups provide all necessary commands.