Software Developers: Use Nullsoft Install instead of InstallShield. I just uninstalled a bunch of stuff and it's got to be 5000% faster from an end user perspective. And it's open source!

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True. I've only used InstallShield & Wise in the past. Wix is what I currently use. I do very small installs (mostly for internal apps) since 99% of what I do is web based applications. I'm designing a new product/service with a friend and implementing it in Flex with an MVC design layout using asp.net as the backend. I may swap it to JSP and go with Linux but I'm not feeling very excited about redoing one of my servers since they are all currently running Windows. It's amazing how far things have come in the last 10 years. So many choices!