Wise Installation Studio/Express Getting Started Guide
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Basic Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer Installation
The extension .QFT is added to the installation. When an end user double-clicks a
file with this extension on the destination computer, the QuickFacts application
starts.
8. Save the installation.
The installation now contains files and other system changes that will be installed on the
destination computer. In the next section, you determine how the installation behaves
on the destination computer.
Customize the Installation’s Behavior on the
Destination Computer
In this section, you determine how the installation behaves on the destination computer.
Tasks in This Section
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Setting system requirements.
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Selecting the dialog boxes that appear during installation.
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Configuring installation types.
Before you perform these tasks, you must have assembled the installation.
See
Assemble the Installation
on page 21.
Set System Requirements
You can specify minimum hardware and software requirements for the installation and
set warning messages that appear to the end user if the destination computer does not
meet specified requirements.
To set system requirements
1. Under the Target System page group, select the System Requirements page.
2. On the System Requirements page, double-click Windows NT Version.
The Windows Version requirement sets requirements for non-NT based operating
systems, while the Windows NT Version requirement sets requirements for NT-
based operating systems.
The Minimum System Requirements dialog box appears.
3. In Windows NT Version, select a version that is older than the operating system
on your computer. If you select one that is newer, the installation won’t run on your
computer.
4. In Message Text, enter:
This installation requires Windows version or later.
Where version is the version you selected in the Windows NT Version field above.
5. Click OK.
