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Inno Setup Extensions Knowledge Base

Inno Setup is an open source script-driven installation system created in Delphi by Jordan Russell.

Inno Setup at Wikipedia

The Inno Setup Extensions Knowledge Base (ISXKB) aims to support users of this installation system by providing a source of information, code snippets, guide lines, and ready-to-use solutions.

There are currently 153 articles in the ISXKB. You can search the ISXKB, browse through a list with all articles, or view them sorted by category. A list sorted by article popularity is also available as well as all special pages.

If you would like to help improve and extend the ISXKB Help:Editing_pages is the place to go. Note that because of spamming now only trusted users can change and add pages, but it's easy to become one (if you're not a spammer ;-). Help:Editing_pages explains how.

If you are a developer and you're using Inno Setup as your deployment application feel free to add your software to the subcategory it belongs to under the Inno Setup users category, or create a subcategory if you think it doesn't fit anywhere else.

Getting Started

Every Inno user should read these first:

• Inno Setup download and installation
• Inno Setup's help file
• Installation considerations
• Application considerations
• Vista considerations
• Basics Category

New Articles

• 2008-01-29: Open Windows Control Panel .cpl files
• 2008-01-05: Ask for a drive to install
• 2007-12-16: Avoiding the Path environment variable
• 2007-12-09: Additional functions in Category:Windows API function calls with Inno Setup
• 2007-11-15: Splash screen
• 2007-11-11: Force log file for Inno Setup 5.2.0 and newer
• 2007-10-28: Backup of application directory
• Open Services panel shows how to open the Windows Services panel with Inno Setup
• InnoBackup - A backup application developed with Inno Setup
• Installation Considerations contains a list with Don'ts.
• Inno Setup Preprocessor: Store the preprocessed output in a file
• Writing quick Pascal programs with Inno Setup shows how to create a 'Hello World' application with Inno Setup
• Only one installer instance shows an example how to make a second setup instance either activate the previous one or die silently
• Application considerations Some basics for developing applications and how to make them ready for updates and reinstallations
• Incrementing build number every time the script is compiled
• Test events example A script that logs all Inno Setup installation events to a file.
• Test events example including Uninstall events A script that logs all Inno Setup installation and uninstallation events to a file.
• NTFS Compression An article about how to compress files and folders on NTFS partitions.

Old Articles

The old version of the Inno Setup Extensions Knowledge Base was a Windows HTML help file (.chm). The file can still be downloaded from here: isxkbchm.zip 339KB Some of these articles may be outdated in the meantime as newer versions of Inno Setup support many new features that had to be achieved via a [Code] section in earlier versions.