GatherBird Setup Creator is a straight forward way to create installation programs to distribute your Windows applications.

GatherBird Setup Creator places all your executable and data files into a single self extracting executable which can be run as an install under Windows OS.

GatherBird Setup Creator supports the main features needed in an installer and is a lot easier to use than other big expensive installers. 

Here are some key features of "GatherBird Setup Creator":

· Installations you create will run under Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server and Vista/Longhorn.
· There are NO advertisements or references to “GatherBird” in your produced installations.
· Installations can be produced in English or Portuguese.
· The uninstall program is automatically created for you.
· Easily add files of any size and type to the install.
· Create desktop icons.
· Place items in the Windows “Start” button menu (program group).
· Place items in Windows startup.
· Show a “welcome” screen.
· Show a license agreement.
· Register COM components.
· Create registry entries.
· Associate file extensions with your installed programs.
· Create installs programs far smaller than InstallShield, Wise, and other installers.
· Show a bitmap picture of your choice (like a logo).
· Place an uninstall entry under the “Add/Remove programs” utility in Windows.
· Prompt the user to reboot after the installation is complete.
· Run your own executables as part of the installation.
· Allow your install to run on only specific Windows OS versions.

· Place a password on the installation.

· The final setup executable created by Setup Creator starts at only 212K in size. (1/8 the size of what a floppy disk can hold). All files you add to the install will add to the 212K by their size after compression.
· The uninstall checks if any of your installed files are running on the system and warns the user appropriately.
· Each installation program created by Setup Creator checks its own file integrity. You don’t have to deal with files corrupted during an Internet download or by other means.
· Setup Creator does not grab DLLs from your development machine and install them on the end user’s computer.
· Automatically compresses all your installation files

Requirements:

· Disk space needed to install: 2 MB

Limitations:

· 45 days trial
· Installation programs created by an unregistered version of Setup Creator will display a message during the installation that the install was created with an unregistered version.
· The number of files you can include in the installation is limited to 2, the registered version can install up to 1024 files.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A problem has been fixed. The end user could experience a rare problem if all these circumstances were true. The installation was password protected, the temp file created by the installation happened to be created as del6.tmp or Del1F.tmp (possibly others as well), and the end user was running Symantec Anti Virus.
· The installation will now allow retries if files from the installation are being copied over files in c:windowssystem32 directory and are in use by the Windows operating system. Previously the installation would halt with a fatal error.