Reviewer, 2011-08-11 07:35:00

Developing a particular program may require a lot of time and expertise with a motive to provide the target customer with the best application platform at the price charged. No matter how advanced your application is; if it has a complex wizard based installation which is not easily understandable by the user or there are some dependencies in the installation which remain unresolved and become hurdle in the smooth installation of the program, you are bound to lose on the market value of your application. To resolve these installation based complexities, you can use Alloy v.4.1.18.2010, which uses a simple and well thought out method for simpler installation.

Alloy is a shareware program by PGWARE LLC which packs all the files required for installation in a single installer package. The program does the whole functioning from a single GUI (Graphical User Interface) based dialog box in which you have to simply add the required files for installation and compile all the files in a single standalone executable package on the single click of a button. You will see three tabs for main executable file in which you specify the main program installer file, other supporting files on which the program installation is based and third tab for compilation of all these files. The program even comes with a powerful dependency scanner which would let you know about all the additionally required files on which the installation is dependent. Apart from all this, this program has intelligent features for automatically checking the version and date-time before the extraction of embedded file; and automatically registers the ActiveX objects.

To conclude, Alloy v.4.1.18.2010 provides a simple solution to a very common problem which users often face while installing some programs by dealing with the complex error prone installation wizards due to external dependencies. Hence, it receives a rating of four out of five.