InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Chapter 2: Getting Started
Configuring Advanced Settings for InstallShield
• All of your product’s files (if the release is one in which all of the files are compressed into the
Setup.exe setup launcher)
• InstallShield prerequisite installations that have a location of Extract From Setup.exe
• The .NET Framework installation if it has a location of Extract From Setup.exe
• The Windows Installer installation if it has a location of Extract Engine From Setup.exe
InstallShield also lets you specify particular files (with or without wild-card characters) that should not
be compressed when they are streamed into Setup.exe files.
Caution: The following instructions require that you modify the Settings.xml file that is installed with InstallShield. This
file contains critical data; if it is edited incorrectly, it can cause InstallShield to fail to work. Use extreme care when editing
this file.
Task To configure compression settings for streamed files:
1. Close InstallShield.
2. Find the Settings.xml file that is installed with InstallShield. Settings.xml is installed in one of the
following locations, depending on which language version of InstallShield you are using:
• English—InstallShield Program Files Folder\Support\0409
• Japanese—InstallShield Program Files Folder\Support\0411
3. Create a back-up copy of the Settings.xml, in case you later need to revert to the original version.
4. Use a text editor or XML file editor to open the Settings.xml file.
5. Search for the element. It looks something like this:
6. To prevent certain files or file types from being compressed when they are streamed into Setup.exe
files, set the value of the exclude attribute to the names of those files. Note the following guidelines:
• To specify more than one file, separate each file name with a comma.
• To indicate a wild-card character, use an asterisk (*).
For example, to specify that .cab files, .exe files, and a file called test.txt should not be compressed,
set the value of the exclude attribute to as follows:
The default value is *.CAB, since .cab files are a compressed type of file.
7. Do one of the following:
• If you want to use a compression level that offers a balance between the size of the compressed
file and the time that is required to extract the compressed files at run time, set the value of the
compressionlevel attribute to -1. This is the default value.
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