Script Generation?

I'm a network administrator and deploying software to Windows systems is, well, difficult. Way back in my academia years I had access to a copy of Installer WISE which would "reverse engineer any installer". They still have this feature, but the $1200 price tag is a bit of a put off, and I know others need the same capabilities for less money.

What this feature did was it would take a snapshot of the current registry, enviroment, filesystem listings, and then quit. At this point you would go and do whatever you want: change settings, install software, download documents, etc. Many reboots later, you would launch the snapshot system again and it would take a snapshot again and diff them and build an installer script for the diff which you could tweak.

The idea is I can install software or adjust system settings, then deploy a silent installer through the login scripts.

Does NSIS have a plugin/related application/etc that could do something like this? I'm I hoping for a miracle? Any input would be appreciated!

There is no such utility for NSIS that I know of.

Re: Script Generation?

Originally posted by edolnx
They still have this feature, but the $1200 price tag is a bit of a put off, and I know others need the same capabilities for less money.

You could check out PC Magazine's InCtrl5 utility which does just that, for a lot less money ($5.97, actually :-)), and then see if you can parse the report file that it generates:



Fred.

Total Uninstall can do this logging and can export report to textfile. As I know it's free. Look at http://www.martau.com/