Tarma Installer 5

Stand-alone installers with the widest platform support for professional developers.

Create stand-alone installers for any Windows 32-bit or 64-bit desktop or server platform, with complete customization of all installer actions and dialogs.

Choose Installer 5 if:

You need maximum Windows platform support, including Windows Mobile
You need .Net support
You need Windows side-by-side support
You want to use the advanced features of Tarma's native v5 installer
You want to modify the installer screens or create your own
You need total control over all installation actions and installer features

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$398 per developer*

*$199 with individual/small business discount

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New in version 5

Compared to Tarma ExpertInstall 3.x, we have simplified the use of our product while adding significant new features to Tarma Installer 5. See Release history for a complete overview. Among other things, we have implemented significantly extended platform support.

Installation platforms

Main features

Tarma Installer 5's main features are:

Fully editable installer dialogs and dialog sequences
Fully editable installer action sequences
Comprehensive language and localization support
Feature- and component-based installation
Extensive preflight checking

Fully editable installer dialogs and dialog sequences

Using the built-in dialog editor, you can completely redefine any and all dialogs in the installation wizard, add any dialogs that you need, or even remove all of them completely.

Dialog editor

Fully editable installer action sequences

You have complete control over the installer's actions, even to the point that it's not an installer at all, but, for example, a CD-ROM AutoRun menu application.

Action sequences

Comprehensive language and localization support

Virtually any piece of text that is visible to the user can be localized, including, but not limited to: dialogs, messages, file and folder names, shortcut titles, and registry data. You can build a single installer that includes all languages, or separate installers for each language from a single project.

16 languages included: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish. You can add your own translations with the built-in localization editors.

Localization editor

Feature- and component-based installation

Following the MSI model, features are pieces of functionality that the user can select for installation in a tree-like structure, while components are groups of installation items defined by the developer that must be installed or removed together.

Features and components

Extensive preflight checking

More than 500 different preflight checks spot potential problems before you deploy your installation.

Diagnostics pane

Product features

Tarma Installer 5 is aimed at professional software developers.

It has many more features than Tarma Installer 2 (QuickInstall), but also requires a deeper understanding of installation issues.

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Upgrading from QuickInstall and ExpertInstall

Free trial edition

You can download and try out Tarma Installer for free. The trial version is fully functional, but does not allow distribution of the installers.

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System requirements

Tarma Installer 5 installers run on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Server 2008, including x64 editions and Windows Server 2008 Core (both GUI and non-interactive modes are supported).

The Windows Mobile .cab installation files are intended for PocketPC and SmartPhone 2003 and later, including Windows Mobile 5 and 6.

The development environment requires Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, or Server 2008, including x64 editions.

Easy navigation

An easy to use development environment with clearly subdivided project sections and pages, plus extensive help and toolbars.

Small and fast

The Tarma native installer is small, fast, and has excellent compression, making your installation packages as compact as possible, thus saving download time and disk space.

Wide range of installation items

You can install files, folders, shortcuts, registry keys and values, INI file values, environment variables, file extensions, COM and DCOM classes and servers (including ActiveX controls), type libraries, and services, with a comprehensive range of options.

Unicode through-and-through

The Tarma development environment, its project files, and the Tarma native installation database and Setup program are Unicode-based from the ground up to ensure that all localization remains intact.

For Windows 95, 98, and Me, an ANSI-based Setup program is supplied, which uses the same Unicode installation database.

Add-on and update installers

Add-on and update installers allow you to install and remove updates and add-on packages separately from the main application's original installation, while still allowing the main application to be uninstalled together with all its dependants. (Tarma native installer only.)