Open Source Windows Installers

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Bulk Crap Uninstaller (in short BCUninstaller or BCU) is a free (as in speech and beer) bulk program uninstaller with advanced automation. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal to no user input, while requiring next to no technical knowledge. It can detect most applications and games (even portable or not registered), clean up leftovers, force uninstall, automatically uninstall according to premade lists, and much more. Bulk Crap Uninstaller is licensed under Apache 2.0 open source license, and can be used in both private and commercial settings for free and with no obligations, as long as no conditions of the license are broken.

Snappy Driver Installer is an application for installing/updating drivers on PCs running Microsoft Windows using driverpacks or included folders with drivers. It can be used to install drivers on newly assembled PCs at places where Internet isn't available. Users can also use the software to keep their drivers up to date.

Great and powerful application to generate stable and multi-platform java installers. Watch a demo of DCP Setup Maker's installer being made in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF5Kyla7Hg Its intuitive UI and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to build complex installers with large amounts of files. The whole process is done step by step through a wizard-like interface, filling in fields and setting up files to finally build your package. *Required: Java 1.6+ Powered by Java, IzPack, Apache Pivot, Apache Ant, Nuget, launch4j and Stax. Source code migrated to https://github.com/DevComPack/setupmaker

Tool for creating live usb-drives and downloading distros. This is an upgraded version of Unetbootin focusing on Bittix linux 9 and above and Linux Mint and Linux Mint debian. Has Distrowatch.com link etc.

ThinWin converts your Windows machine to a Thin Client in seconds! With ThinWin you can easily lock down a pc acting as a Thin Client. ThinWin is based on ThinXP (Complete rewrite)

The Solution for Windows Silent Software Installation. The Great Unattended Project - TGUP is an Online Unattended Installer that downloads and installs latest versions of commonly-used freeware silently in sequence and sorts them into the startmenu. See TGUP in Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6t--dDbYHM

Moved to: https://github.com/vanderlee/Plugin-Setup Windows Setup tool specifically designed for installing PhotoShop compatible plug-ins. Will recognize all Windows PhotoShop plug-in compatible hosts and allow the user to pick which hosts the plug-in should be installed for.

UPCASE stands for User Platform of Collaborative Applications for the Social Economy. The UPCASE software is a generic installer of PHP + MySQL applications. Each supported software is considerd as package available via our package-server.

This gives the opportunity to a fully automated windows installation. Including software, updates and optional backup of data and useraccounts. You can create a fully automatic windows installation media, or directly reinstall the current computer. You can also install updates and software very easy. To avoid update installations on other windows installations, a build-in tool to update your installation media is available as well.

Gobisoft is a batch package builder for applications, it builds a self-install package of your programs. Creates a stand alone executable file that performs the (secured installation and removing) of the elements necessary to distribute your applications. The software offers many possibilities, such as executing commands before and after installation.

JSetup is an installation generator for distributing java programs with ease to end-users.

N.I.C.E. is an editor for NSIS scripts. It helps the user with programming by using wizards and other features. With N.I.C.E., you can make your own customized program installation executable which installs your program on other PC's.

Nixstaller is an Open Source project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems. Some of its features are: small size overhead, large compatibility, Lua scripting and few dependencies.

Easy creation of a RunOnceEx.cmd file for creating Unattended Windows 2000 and higher installations. It has an internal library of the most commonly used program for easy creation of the file, also can the database be extended with your own programs.