The usability demands of End-users are getting higher, not only for the application themselves, but also for its environment: the tools that controls the installation and upgrading of the applications.
Installation is for end-users the most difficult thing to do, something they prefer to avoid. Software and upgrades are often downloaded and forgotten. They are on the hard drive of the end-users, but after a few hours or days the end-users has no idea what the purpose of the file is, and will surely not run it.
So we need to find ways to make it easier for end-users to really download and install your application.
LizeJet installer respects the attention span of the end-users; they have more to do then waiting for the download of your application.
LizaJet Installer achieves this goal by:
- having a small initial Setup file.
The end-user does not need to wait until a full-size executable is downloaded, within seconds after starting download the end-user can start running your setup executable.
- automatic restart
When the user stops downloading your application, it is automatically resumed the next time the user starts the computer.
- displaying user dialogs before downloading.Usability demands of end-users change over time
If your installations has user-dialogs they are shown before downloading your application.
- an integrated automatic upgrade facility.
Upgrade can be done by one-click.
- One-Step-Upgrade
Not all users will use a program on a daily base, and will often miss an upgrade. LizaJet Installer handles this situation with the One-Step-Upgrade facility.
LizaJet Installer also contains features to improve the user-experience:
- Your users can install and uninstall your installation and third party software in one pass and embed multiple setups in one installation.
- That you can achieve the same look of feel in your installation and upgrading as in your application
- You can enable users to uninstall to a previous version
- You can target updates to installations that have specific conditions
