Symantec WISE INSTALLATION STUDIO - GETTING STARTED GUIDE V1.0 Getting Started Manual

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Contents

Planning the Installation of Wise Installation Studio/Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

About Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation Express. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Product Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chapter 1: Installing Wise Installation Studio\Express. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Installing an Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing the Windows Installer Editor Language Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting to a Wise Software Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Converting an Evaluation Version to a Production Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Starting the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 2: Basic Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

About the basic tutorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Basic tutorial prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Create a New Installation Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Open a Project and Set Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Enter Product Details and General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Create and Organize Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Assemble the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Add Files to the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Add Registry Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Add a Shortcut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Create a File Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Customize the Installation’s Behavior on the Destination Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Set System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Select Dialog Boxes That Appear to End Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Configure Installation Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Define Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Create Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Customize the Demo Release Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Compile and Test the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 3: Advanced Tutorial: Using MSI Script in a Windows Installer Installation . . 31

About the advanced tutorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Call a .DLL With a Custom Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Set a Directory With a Custom Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Call an .EXE With a Custom Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Performing Advanced Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 4: Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer Installation in Visual Studio

Integrated Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

About the Visual Studio Integrated Editor tutorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Open the C# QuickFacts Solution and Create an Installation Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Open the Installation Project and Set Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Enter Product Details and General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Add Files to the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Planning the Installation of Wise Installation

Studio/Express

This chapter includes the following topics:

z About Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation Express on page 8

z System Requirements on page 9

z Product Documentation on page 10

About Wise Installation Studio and Wise

Installation Express

This product offers you two choices for authoring installations: Wise Installation Studio

or Wise Installation Express. Both products build on established Wise technologies.

In effort to simplify our product lines, we have discontinued the Wise for Windows

Installer and Wise Installation System product lines. The technologies that were in those

products are now included in Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation Express.

Wise Installation Studio

Wise Installation Studio is an advanced installation authoring tool that supports both

Windows Installer (.MSI) and WiseScript installations. Wise Installation Studio is a

comprehensive collection of tools and technologies for creating software installations for

Windows devices:

z Windows Installer Editor

This tool is comparable to Wise for Windows Installer - Professional and Enterprise

Editions. Use it to create and edit Windows Installer installation packages.

z WiseScript Package Editor

This tool is comparable to Wise Installation System - all editions. Use it to create

and edit installation packages based on the WiseScript scripting language.

z Wise Virtual Package Editor

Use this tool to create and edit a virtual software layer, a virtual software project

file, or a virtual software archive file.

When you choose to install Virtual Package Editor, the SVS Driver (Altiris Software

Virtualization Agent) is downloaded and installed also. However, if you install Wise

Installation Studio on a 64-bit computer, the SVS Driver is not installed and any

functionality that requires this driver is unavailable.

z Wise Mobile Device Package Editor - Use this tool to create a project file in .INF

format and compile it to one or more .CAB files that install a mobile device

application.

Wise Installation Express

Wise Installation Express is a basic installation authoring tool that supports Windows

Installer installations. Wise Installation Express consists of the following tools:

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z Windows Installer Editor

This tool is comparable to Wise for Windows Installer - Standard and Professional

Editions. Use it to create and edit Windows Installer installation packages.

z WiseScript Editor (formerly named WiseScript Express)

This tool contains the same scripting interface as WiseScript Package Editor, but it

does not contain the Installation Expert interface or other installation development

features. Use it to create WiseScripts that are called by a Windows Installer custom

action. You access WiseScript Editor from a WiseScript custom action in Windows

Installer Editor.

System Requirements

The following are the minimum system requirements for running Wise Installation

Studio and Wise Installation Express.

Restrictions

We do not support the installation of Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation

Express on any computer that contains any edition or version of the following:

z Wise for Windows Installer

z Wise for Visual Studio .NET

z Wise Package Studio

Requirements for Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation

Express

Computer/processor PC with a Pentium III-class processor

Minimum: 450 MHZ

Recommended: 800 MHZ

Optimal: 1GHz

Operating system Minimum: Windows 2000 SP4

Recommended: Windows XP Professional

SP2 or later

Also supported: Windows Vista, Windows

2003, Windows 2008, Windows 7

Microsoft Internet

Explorer

Minimum: 6.0

Recommended: 7.0 or 8.0

RAM Minimum: 256 MB

Recommended: 512 GB

Optimal: 1 GB

Free space on boot

drive

65 MB

Free space on

installation drive

120 MB

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Requirements for Visual Studio Integrated Editor

The Visual Studio integrated editor requires Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET or

Microsoft® Visual Studio® (2005 or 2008). You must install Visual Studio before you

install Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express. For the Microsoft

requirements for installing Visual Studio, consult the documentation that you received

with Visual Studio.

Requirements for .NET Framework

The .NET Framework is required for advanced .NET support in Windows Installer Editor.

The .NET Framework requires Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01 or later and one of the

operating systems that are supported by Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation

Express.

Supported Operating Systems for Installations You Create

Installations that you create in Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation Express

can be run on any Windows operating system that those products support.

Product Documentation

This documentation assumes that you are proficient in the use of the Windows operating

system. If you need help using the operating system, consult its user documentation.

Use the following sources of information to learn about this product.

Online Help

The online help contains detailed technical information and step-by-step instructions for

performing common tasks.

Access help in the following ways:

z To display context-sensitive help for the active window or dialog box, press F1.

z To select a help topic from a table of contents, index, or search, select Help menu >

Help Topics.

Each tool has its own Help menu and its own online help.

Reference Manual

All the material in the online help is also available in a .PDF-format reference manual,

which you can access by selecting Help menu > Reference Manual.

Each tool has its own Help menu and its own reference manual.

Getting Started Guide

The Getting Started Guide contains system requirements, installation instructions, and a

tutorial. You can access a .PDF version of the Getting Started Guide from the Windows

Start menu.

Windows Installer SDK Help (Windows Installer Editor only)

You can get technical details about Windows Installer from its own help system, which is

written by Microsoft for a developer audience. In Wise for Windows Installer, select Help

menu > Windows Installer SDK Help.

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Version 4.5 of the Windows Installer SDK Help is provided. If you have obtained a later

version, links from the Wise product documentation to the Windows Installer SDK Help

might not work.

To access the Windows Installer SDK Help in Visual Studio, select Help menu > Wise

Help > Windows Installer SDK Help. Windows Installer SDK help topics are also available

within the Visual Studio help collection.

Release Notes

The product release notes cover new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and known

issues for the current version of this product. To access the release notes, select Release

Notes from the Symantec program group on the Windows Start menu.

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Chapter 1

Installing Wise Installation Studio\Express

This chapter includes the following topics:

z Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express

z Installing an Upgrade

z Installing the Windows Installer Editor Language Pack

z Connecting to a Wise Software Repository

z Converting an Evaluation Version to a Production Version

z Starting the Software

Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise

Installation Express

Before installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express make sure the

computer meets the minimum system requirements.

See System Requirements on page 9.

To install Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express

1. Close any other applications that are running.

2. Download and run the installation file.

3. On the installation’s Welcome dialog box, click Next.

4. On the License Agreement dialog box, read the license terms, mark I accept the

license agreement, and click Next.

If you do not accept the license agreement, you cannot continue the installation.

5. Complete the remaining dialog boxes, which are described below.

User Information dialog box

Product Enter a production or evaluation serial number for

the Standard or Professional Edition. If you are

upgrading from a previous version, you should have

received a new serial number for the upgrade. If you

are installing an evaluation version without a serial

number, skip this section.

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Installing Wise Installation Studio\Express

Evaluation dialog box

This dialog box appears only when you mark the Install Evaluation Version check box

on the User Information dialog box.

Mark the option for the product to install.

Select Features dialog box

(Wise Installation Studio only.) Click the button to the left of each feature and select an

option for installing that feature. Windows Installer Editor and WiseScript Package Editor

are always installed.

Wise Installation Studio / Wise Installation Express Directory dialog

box

In Destination Directory, specify where to install the product’s application files.

Ready to Install the Application dialog box

Click Next to start installing.

Final dialog box

When the installation finishes, a dialog box indicates that the installation has been

completed successfully.

On this dialog box, click Finish to exit the installation.

If you are prompted to restart your computer, do so.

Installing an Upgrade

You can upgrade to Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express 7.0 from an

earlier version of a Wise product.

You also can upgrade from Wise Installation Express to Wise Installation Studio without

uninstalling the previous edition.

To upgrade from an earlier version

1. Uninstall the earlier version.

Previous Version If you are upgrading from a previous version of Wise

for Windows Installer, enter the serial number for the

previous version. If you don’t know the previous

version serial number, open Wise for Windows

Installer and select Help menu > About. The serial

number appears on the About dialog box.

Language Pack If you purchased the optional Language Pack for

Windows Installer Editor, enter its serial number.

Install Evaluation Version Mark this to install an evaluation version without a

serial number.

Full Name

Organization

Enter this identifying information.

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Installing Wise Installation Studio\Express

2. Run the installation and, in the User Information dialog box, enter a new serial

number and the earlier version serial number.

3. Step through the remainder of the installation.

See Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express on page 12.

If you don’t know the earlier version serial number, open the product and select Help

menu > About. The serial number appears on the About dialog box.

To upgrade from Wise Installation Express to Wise Installation Studio

1. Do one of the following:

 Run the installation program and in the Application Maintenance dialog box,

click Modify and then click Next.

 In the Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs. In the Add/Remove Programs

dialog box, click Wise Installation Express and then click Change.

2. In the User Information dialog box, in Product, enter your Wise Installation Studio

serial number. Your Wise Installation Express serial number is displayed in the

Previous version box.

3. Step through the remainder of the installation.

See Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express on page 12.

Installing the Windows Installer Editor Language

Pack

The Language Pack is an add-on to Windows Installer Editor. It provides pre-translated

strings for 20 additional languages on the Languages page, which lets you effortlessly

ship your installations in other languages.

Options for Installing the Language Pack

z If you purchase the Language Pack at the same time you purchase Wise Installation

Studio or Wise Installation Express, the Language Pack is installed with the main

application. Enter the Language Pack serial number on the User Information dialog

box.

z If you purchase the Language Pack after you install Wise Installation Studio or Wise

Installation Express, then install the Language Pack separately. When you purchase

the Language Pack, you receive a serial number.

a. Download the Language Pack installation file. The file name is WIS_Lang_x.msi,

where x is the product version number.

b. Run the Language Pack installation file. The installation process is an

abbreviated version of the main product’s installation wizard. Enter the

Language Pack serial number on the User Information dialog box and step

through the remaining dialog boxes.

See Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express on page 12.

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Installing Wise Installation Studio\Express

Connecting to a Wise Software Repository

¾ Wise Installation Studio only

You can connect to a Wise Software Repository that has been configured for an

installation of Wise Package Studio 8.0 or later.

When you connect to a Wise Software Repository:

z The default locations for Windows Installer installation resources are set to

subdirectories of the share point directory that is associated with the repository.

See Installation Resources and Their Locations in the Windows Installer Editor Help.

z Repository-related features in Windows Installer Editor are enabled.

To connect to a Wise Software Repository, use the Repository Client Manager.

See Connecting to a Wise Software Repository in the Windows Installer Editor Help.

See also:

Using a Wise Package Studio Repository in the Windows Installer Editor Help

Converting an Evaluation Version to a Production

Version

You can convert an evaluation version of Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation

Express to a production version without uninstalling the product.

To convert an evaluation version to a production version

1. Purchase the product and obtain a production serial number.

2. Start any Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express tool and click Serial

Number on the Evaluation dialog box.

3. Enter the production serial number and click OK.

The evaluation version is converted to a production version. When you start a tool, the

Evaluation dialog box no longer appears.

Starting the Software

z Wise Installation Studio

Select Start menu > Programs > Symantec > Wise Installation Studio, and then

select the tool to start.

z Wise Installation Express

Select Start menu > Programs > Symantec > Wise Installation Express > Windows

Installer Editor.

For instructions on using each tool, see its documentation.

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Chapter 2

Basic Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer

Installation

This chapter includes the following topics:

z About the basic tutorial

z Basic tutorial prerequisites

z Create a New Installation Project

z Assemble the Installation

z Customize the Installation’s Behavior on the Destination Computer

z Define Releases

z Compile and Test the Installation

About the basic tutorial

This tutorial guides you through the creation of a Windows Installer installation. A

sample application, QuickFacts, which is included with Windows Installer Editor, provides

a realistic practice scenario. The QuickFacts program is a simple text viewer. QuickFacts

does not make system changes to your computer and is safe to install.

This tutorial takes about 45 to 60 minutes to complete. If you stop before finishing, save

the installation and resume the tutorial at a later time.

If you use Visual Studio integrated editor, first follow this basic tutorial using the Wise

editor. Then follow the Visual Studio integrated tutorial, which contains procedures that

are specific to the Visual Studio integrated editor.

See Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer Installation in Visual Studio Integrated Editor

on page 43

In this tutorial, you will use Installation Expert in Windows Installer Editor to:

z Create a New Installation Project

z Assemble the Installation

z Customize the Installation’s Behavior on the Destination Computer

z Define Releases

z Compile and Test the Installation

Note

This tutorial does not cover details of Installation Expert Pages and dialog boxes. Press

F1 on any page or dialog box for context-sensitive documentation.

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Basic Tutorial: Creating a Windows Installer Installation

Basic tutorial prerequisites

Install Wise Installation Express, or the Windows Installer Editor feature of Wise

Installation Studio.

See Installing Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express on page 12.

We assume that you are following this tutorial for the first time. Follow the instructions

in this tutorial exactly as presented; otherwise, your results can deviate from the

information presented here.

Warning

If you have followed this tutorial previously, delete any files you might have created

then. If you previously installed the QuickFacts sample application, uninstall it before

proceeding with the tutorial.

Create a New Installation Project

In this section, you set options for using Windows Installer Editor. You then create a new

installation, enter descriptive information about it, and structure the features in the

installation.

Tasks in This Section

z Setting options.

z Creating a new installation project.

z Entering product details.

z Entering general information.

z Entering information for Add/Remove Programs.

z Setting up features.

Open a Project and Set Options

You use the Wise Options dialog box to customize the behavior of Windows Installer

Editor for all installations you create.

Windows Installer projects are comprised of features, and normally, you view folders

and registry keys per feature. In this procedure, you open a new project and set options

that let you view folders and registry keys for all features simultaneously, making it

easier to see the installation as a whole.

To open a project and set options

1. Select Windows Start menu > Programs > Symantec > Windows Installer Editor.

2. If the New Installation File dialog box does not appear, select File menu > New.

3. On the New Installation File dialog box:

a. Select the Windows Application icon.

b. Mark Create .WSI or .WSM project file that can be compiled into an .MSI

or .MSM. This option lets you work in a project file (.WSI), which describes and

compiles the actual installation file (.MSI).

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c. In the Target Platform section, select 32-bit.

4. Click OK.

A new project opens.

5. Select Tools menu > Options.

6. On the Wise Options dialog box, click the Installation Expert tab and mark the

following options:

 View directories for all features on Files page

This lets you see all directories in Installation Expert > Files page, regardless of

what feature each directory was created for.

 View registry keys for all features on Registry page

This lets you see a composite view of all registry keys in Installation Expert >

Registry page, regardless of what feature the registry key was created for.

Note

To display context-sensitive help, press F1.

7. Leave the defaults for all other options.

8. Click OK.

9. Save the installation with the name QuickFacts.wsi.

Enter Product Details and General Information

To enter information about the installation, you use pages in the Project Definition page

group in Installation Expert.

To enter product details and general information

1. Click Installation Expert at the lower left of the application window.

Throughout this tutorial, you will use pages in Installation Expert. The pages are

listed in the left pane; they are organized in groups that are listed in the order in

which you usually will use them.

2. Under the Project Definition page group on the left, click Product Details.

The Product Details page appears, where you enter meta data that is used in the

installation dialog boxes to identify the product to the end user who is installing it.

3. Enter this information in the Package Meta Data table:

 Product Name

Enter: QuickFacts

 Manufacturer

Enter your company name.

 Application Type

Make sure this is set to Win32 (non .NET).

 Installation Target

Make sure this is set to Windows-based desktop/server PC.

4. Under the Project Definition page group on the left, click General Information.

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The General Information page appears, where you set the information that appears

when the end user right-clicks the installation file in Windows Explorer and selects

Properties.

5. Enter this information on the General Information page:

 Title

Enter: QuickFacts

 Author

Enter your name.

6. Under the Project Definition page group on the left, click Add/Remove Programs.

The Add/Remove Programs page appears, where you enter information to support

the capabilities of the Add/Remove Programs control panel.

7. Enter this information on the Add/Remove Programs page:

 Display in Add/Remove Programs list

Make sure this is marked.

 Product Updates URL

Enter: No support provided.

8. Save the installation.

Now that you’ve entered basic information about the installation, you can define the

features that provide structure to the installation.

Create and Organize Features

After entering product details and general information for a new installation, you should

define its structure.

To create the structure of an installation, you define:

z What features make up the application.

z How those features are presented to the end user during installation.

z What conditions must be true for portions of features to be installed.

Determine features and conditions before configuring other aspects of the installation,

because all other system changes (adding files, adding registry entries, and so on) that

you define later must be associated with a feature. Many pages in Installation Expert

have a Current Feature drop-down list that lets you set options on a per-feature and

per-condition basis.

The QuickFacts installation consists of four features. The feature named Core, which is

always installed, contains the QuickFacts program and online help. The other features,

Birds, Cats, and Dogs, are optional and contain fact files about those animals. Each will

appear as an optional feature during the QuickFacts installation.

To create and organize features

1. Under the Project Definition page group on the left, click Features.

The Features page appears.

A feature named Complete already exists, because every installation must contain

at least one feature.

2. Double-click the Complete feature or select it and click the Details button.

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The Feature Details dialog box appears.

3. Complete the dialog box:

4. Use the Add button to enter an additional feature.

5. Use the Add button to enter an additional feature.

6. Use the Add button to enter an additional feature.

Name Override the existing name by typing Core, and then

press Tab.

Title Core

Parent Leave the default.

Target Platform Leave the default.

Description QuickFacts program and help files

Required Feature Mark this.

Remaining options Leave the defaults.

Name Birds

Title Birds

Parent <None>

Target Platform Leave the default.

Description Facts about birds

Required Feature Leave the default.

Remaining options Leave the defaults.

Name Cats

Title Cats

Parent <None>

Target Platform Leave the default.

Description Facts about cats

Required Feature Leave the default.

Remaining options Leave the defaults.

Name Dogs

Title Dogs

Parent <None>

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