make your own installer

yes chance

Is it only with open source software you can make your own installer?. I saw a site suggesting people could make their own installer for an open source prog if they did not trust that unticking the bundled ads would ensure they did not get them

Could you make an installer for any program? Is it in the installer the ads/spyware etc are bundled. Would you need just the exe and where would you get just a plain exe of the program

yoyo

You could use something like NSIS or Inno Installer. I tend to use Ninite to install stuff without the toolbards and junk.

Nick

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yoyo wrote: »

You could use something like NSIS or Inno Installer. I tend to use Ninite to install stuff without the toolbards and junk.

Nick

Thanks. I was interested in learning to make one. I will look at Ninite though. Is all the junk always in the installer?

yoyo

yes chance wrote: »

Thanks. I was interested in learning to make one. I will look at Ninite though. Is all the junk always in the installer?

Look into the solutions above so. I used both a while back just as a kind of interest really. Not a coder though. There both scripted but there are IDEs out there for them if you don't fancy learning the script code.
Ninite bypasses the toolbars/junk installation completely. It's a brilliant tool for updating plugins and re-installing stuff after a format

Nick

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yoyo wrote: »

Look into the solutions above so. I used both a while back just as a kind of interest really. Not a coder though. There both scripted but there are IDEs out there for them if you don't fancy learning the script code.
Ninite bypasses the toolbars/junk installation completely. It's a brilliant tool for updating plugins and re-installing stuff after a format

Nick

Had a look but cannot download unless choose programs. Does that check all the time for updates in the background?

BopNiblets

yes chance wrote: »

Had a look but cannot download unless choose programs. Does that check all the time for updates in the background?

It installs the last version if the apps you select.

GreenWolfe

yes chance wrote: »

Had a look but cannot download unless choose programs. Does that check all the time for updates in the background?

If you want to update the installed applications, run the small executable again that you originally downloaded from Ninite.

yes chance

is this only for people who create their own programs? It could not be used to install a program downoaded from the net?

yoyo

yes chance wrote: »

is this only for people who create their own programs? It could not be used to install a program downoaded from the net?

Yes, it's designed for programmers like the ones I mentioned above. I suppose you could re-package an app if you wished provided you know the registry modifications/where settings files are created etc.

Nick

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yoyo wrote: »

Yes, it's designed for programmers like the ones I mentioned above. I suppose you could re-package an app if you wished provided you know the registry modifications/where settings files are created etc.

Nick

ok thanks they are a bit beyond me at the moment. I had though it may be possible to use something like it to install programs and make sure they was no adware etc

GreenWolfe

yes chance wrote: »

ok thanks they are a bit beyond me at the moment. I had though it may be possible to use something like it to install programs and make sure they was no adware etc

Have you tried investigating the default install settings and switches for any program you're not sure about? I'm far from an expert on this, but one such example is here. I'd expect this changes from program to program.

Unless you know what you're doing, making your own installers for programs might make things worse rather than better tbh. (i.e. writing keys to the registry without knowing what they do)