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- SDS Software Setup2Go V1.9.7
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- Copyright (c) SDS Software 1997-2003. All rights reserved.
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-
- Welcome to SDS Software Setup2Go 1.9.7
-
-
- What is Setup2Go?
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- Setup2Go is a powerful, easy to use, highly interactive tool
- for creating Windows based installation packages. Setup2Go
- supports all 32-bit Windows versions in use today -
- Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP. Unlike other Installer
- and Setup creation programs, Setup2Go is script-free and does
- not require the user to have any programming background, nor
- does it require the user to learn any application-specific
- language! It allows you to use a point-and-click interface to
- create and manage installation projects based on your business
- needs. Besides that this tool will allow you to create
- self-extracting executable files for distribution over the Web,
- Internet, Intranet and e-mail your data files, graphic images
- or whatever else you want to distribute!
-
-
- System Requirements
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- Minimal configuration:
- * Pentium 133 or higher
- * 32MB RAM
- * 800x600 screen resolution
- * Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
-
- Preferred configuration:
- * Pentium II or higher
- * 64MB RAM
- * 800x600 screen resolution
- * Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
-
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- Setup2Go Editions
- ----------------------------
- Setup2Go is available in two different versions:
-
- Setup2Go Freeware Version - complete version of Setup2Go
- with unlimited rights to produce setups for both commercial
- and freeware products. There are absolutely no limitations
- in the functionality, and none of those annoying "nag screens"
- in the main application. Setups producing by this version
- will have an advertisement page for SDS Software when the
- installation is complete.
-
- Setup2Go Registered Version - $ 29.00 - Single License
- The same version as above, without any advertisement. Here,
- too, you get unlimited rights to create setups for both
- commercial and non-commercial products.
-
- The Registration includes a free subscription program.
- Each Registered user will be receiving all major updates,
- bug fixes and technical support for the registered version
- within one year.
-
- For getting more ordering information (including mail orders),
- please visit: http://dev4pc.com/ordering.html
-
-
- Credits
- ----------
- The following 3rd party software/materials have been used
- to create this version of Setup2Go:
-
- * Compression library: zlib 1.1.3 -
- Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
- * The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables: UPX 1.00 -
- Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar
- http://upx.sourceforge.net
-
- Contact
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- SDS Software Web Site: http://dev4pc.com
- E-mail: info@dev4pc.com
-
-
- Technical Support
- --------------------------
- Your feedback is very important for the further development
- of Setup2Go. For bug reports, comments, suggestions or
- complaints, please send e-mail to support@dev4pc.com
-
- Feel free to send any feedback to feedback@dev4pc.com
-
- Setup2Go Revision History
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-
- Ver. 1.9.7 - 14 February 2003
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- 1. Fixed a bug in Registry tab - the product refused to install
- zero-length registry string values on Windows 9x.
- Thanks to C. Alexander for his bug report.
- 2. Added Thai Language support.
- Thanks to Charoon Pitakchaiyawong for this work.
- 3. Danish language file update.
- Thanks to Brian Witte for this work.
-
- Ver. 1.9.6 - 3 February 2003
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- 1. Fixed a bug in Registry tab - now you can properly add
- registry Values and names with a "\" symbols.
- Thanks to Michael T. Braams for his bug report.
-
- Ver. 1.9.5 - 2 February 2003
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- 1. Added TrueType Font installation feature.
- Thanks to Michael T. Braams for his Font support tips.
- Please insert your TrueType font files to the
- Windows\Fonts directory of the Files tab.
- 2. Added Chinese language support.
- Thanks to axiong and QuanQuan for this work.
- 3. Italian language file update.
- Thanks to Stefano Perini for this work.
- 4. It is also experimental version with Japanese language
- support. Thanks to Robert CHALMAS for this work
- and for for Japanese language support tips.
- 5. Fixed a bug in Registry tab - now you can properly add
- registry Values and names with a "\" symbols.
- Thanks to Michael T. Braams for his bug report.
- 6. Fixed a bug - multiple copies of the same file in
- the setup package. Here is the details:
- "I would like to install one file from my setup package
- into two different directories. Is there any way to do
- this that does not require two copies of the same file
- to be included in the setup package? It is doubling the
- size of the setup, which I would like to avoid."
- Thanks to John TeSelle for his bug report.
-
- Ver. 1.9.4 - 29 January 2003
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- 1. Ukrainian language file update.
- Thanks to Mokiy Mazaylo for this work.
-
- Ver. 1.9.3 - 22 January 2003
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- 1. French Help update.
- Thanks to Juan Canto for this work.
- 2. German language file corrections.
- Thanks to Tom Jurgens for this work.
-
- Ver. 1.9.2 - 11 January 2003
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- 1. Turkish language file corrections.
- Thanks to Gokmen Gok for this work.
- 2. Italian language file corrections.
- Thanks to Stefano Perini for this work.
-
- 1. Fixed a bug in Uninstaller:
- "Delete Shared File Notice did not display correctly
- shared file pathname".
-
- Ver. 1.9.1 - 2 January 2003
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- 1. Fixed a bug in Uninstaller:
- "Delete Shared File Notice did not display correctly
- shared file pathname".
-
- Ver. 1.9 - 28 December 2002
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- 1. Added new target folders to the Files tab:
- Application Data - the location for the Current User
- Application Data folder within the Documents and
- Settings folder on the destination system;
- Favorites - the location of the Favorites folder on
- the destination system;
- My Documents - the location of the My Documents folder
- on the destination system.
- Startup - the location of the Startup folder on
- the destination system.
- Desktop - the location of the Desktop folder on
- the destination system.
- 2. Changed INI Files tab to support unlimited number of
- INI entries.
-
- Ver. 1.8.1 - 6 December 2002
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- 1. Ukranian language corrections.
- 2. Fixed a bug in the Files Tab in adding compressed
- EXE files.
-
- Ver. 1.8 - 18 November 2002
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- 1. Added a Croatian translation.
- 2. Added Show file in-use option in the File Properties Dialog.
- If this option checked and replaced file is in-use, installer
- shows Retry | Cancel | Abort dialog.
- 3. Added a new dialog support in the Dialogs/Screens tab -
- the Program Icon Options dialog. Users now can optionally
- create program icon on Desktop and in the Quick Launch
- Toolbar.
-
- Ver. 1.7.1 - 2 November 2002
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- 1. Added a Hungarian translation.
-
- Ver. 1.7 - 23 October 2002
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- 1. Added "Force restart after successful installation" option
- to the Install Settings of the Setup Info tab.
- 2. Added support Rich Text Format files in ReadMe and License
- dialogs.
- 3. Added a Dutch (Nederlands) translation.
- 4. Added a Norwegian translation.
- 5. Added a Ukrainian translation.
- 6. Swedish language file revision.
-
- Ver. 1.6.2 - 3 October 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug:
- "Replace existing file: Always" does not work if
- file is currently in use.
-
- Ver. 1.6.1 - 1 October 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug in the Re-Install Settings section of the
- Setup Settings tab.
- 2. French langauge file revision to reflect changes in
- version 1.6.0.
-
- Ver. 1.6.0 - 27 September 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug in the External Tools tab.
- In some cases the Installer replaced \t sequence
- in the file pathname with a tab character.
-
- Ver. 1.5.9 - 10 September 2002
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- 1. Added Polish language support.
-
- Ver. 1.5.8 - 25 August 2002
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- 1. Add the Re-install section to the Setup Settings tab.
- Please see product's help for the details.
- 2. Changed Setup.log file format from text to binary.
-
- Ver. 1.5.7 - 16 August 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug:
- "Password feature does not work in the freeware version
- of the product if the Create self-extracted setup flag is on."
-
- Ver. 1.5.6 - 15 August 2002
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- 1. Added Quick Launch Toolbar support to the Shortcuts tab.
- Now you can optionally create application shortcuts in this
- folder.
- 2. Added Splash Screen Duration field to the Dialogs/Screens
- tab.
-
- Ver. 1.5.5 - 9 August 2002
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- 1. Added Setup Password Protection.
-
- Ver. 1.5.4 - 4 August 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug:
- "After importing a reg file which contains a large binary
- value, if I try to view the data under the registry tab, I get
- an error and the program aborts."
- 2. Added Most Recent Project files support to the program.
- 3. Added Czech language support.
-
- Ver. 1.5.3 - 22 July 2002
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- 1. Improved Coopying Files dialog. A new progress bar added
- to improve vizualization of the unpacking of large files.
- 2. Added Use System Attributes option in the File Properties
- dialog. When this option is selected, the file is installed with
- the same attributes that it currently has on the development
- system.
-
- Ver. 1.5.2 - 13 July 2002
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- 1. Added Insert Folder command to the Files tab
- 2. Fixed a bug:
- "You program won't add a file to the setup.exe if it has a comma in it."
-
- Ver. 1.5.1 - 12 July 2002
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- 1. Swedish Language Support.
-
- Ver. 1.5 - 3 July 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug:
- "After adding a file named DIALOGS, the program would only
- compile a setup program with the Silent mode option enabled."
- 2. Fixed a bug:
- "Can not create a key in the registry with values that contains a comma (,)"
-
- Ver. 1.4.9 - 22 June 2002
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- 1. Added .bat files support in the Run External Tools feature.
- 2. Fixed a bug:
- "Replace existing file if version number same or older" feature does not work
-
- Ver. 1.4.8 - 17 June 2002
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- 1. Changed ActiveX/OCX self-registration procedure.
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- Ver. 1.4.7 - 13 June 2002
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- 1. Fixed a bug:
- "Even when idle, your application uses 98+% CPU"
- 2. Some changes in the Shortcut tab. Now you can
- create shortcut folders on the desktop and directly
- under the start button.
- 3. Improved French Help file.
- 4. Improved Italian language file.
-
- Ver. 1.4.6 - 8 June 2002
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- 1. Added Portuguese language support.
- 2. New feature introduced. Now you can launch not
- only executable at the end of installation
- (Run Installed Application checkbox in the Finished
- dialog section of the Dialogs/Screens tab). You can
- "run" your .hlp , .chm or other non-executable files.
- 3. Some minor changes in the Shortcut tab. Now you
- can create file shortcut to a "virtual file" (one that is
- not included in the Files tab). As an example, you can
- create a shortcut to a file that will reside on your CD.
- 4. A new variable %TempDir% introduced - this variable
- will be replaced with the path of the directory designated
- for temporary files.
-
- Ver. 1.0 - 28 April 2002
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- Initial release of the Setup2Go
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- COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND OTHER LEGAL NOTICES
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- THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THIS PROGRAM IS PROTECTED BY
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- Copyright ⌐ 1997-2003 by SDS Software. All rights reserved.
-
- MS-DOS ⌐, Windows ⌐, Microsoft are registered trademarks
- or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States
- and/or other countries. All rights reserved. All other brand
- or product names are trademarks or service marks of their
- respective holders.
-
- Although we have cleared copyright where possible we invite
- copyright holders not credited to contact SDS Software.
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