SSE Setup - free and easy Windows program installer

SSE SetupTM is a powerful freeware Windows desktop app installation creator that is easy, full-featured & mature, and has been around almost 20 years with substantial development behind it.

Create your installer in way less time than other installers out there! Go with SSE Setup!

  • Installers run on Windows 11 and all relevant Windows OS's (you choose)
  • Create a small, efficient, fully functional installer in minutes
  • Handles the vast majority of use cases much easier and with much less time required on your part compared to most installers
  • Upgrade/patch support with integrated Internet Updater solution to download & install updates
  • Prerequisites checks to look for needed hardware / OS's / software
  • Can download any required software (runtimes) your program needs
  • For Access developers: Easy Access database deployment
  • For .NET installs, easy runtime/framework download if user needs
  • Installs 32-bit and 64-bit programs
  • Multilingual installers with built-in modifable translations for 12 of the world's most used languages
  • Familiar but customizable installer user interface
  • Display license agreement that must be agreed to
  • Install files & shortcuts; modify registry
  • Associate filetypes with your software
  • Show welcome screen or custom messages
  • Advanced features such as creating task scheduler tasks, modifying ACL, modifying user privileges, playing audio
  • Unicode & long path friendly
  • Built-in digital signer to sign your files and/or installer with your certificate (you don't need signtool)
  • Project management solution that can save significant time
  • Straight-forward to use, but comes with extensive context-sensitive help that's just a click away

To create installs, most installers are either scripting based or GUI-based. SSE Setup is GUI-based with a logical & well-thought-out interface, but you can manually edit if you prefer. SSE Setup is purposely not scripting-based because it was designed from the getgo to do what the vast majority of installs need and do it much easier than you having to learn a new scripting language. And you can still run external programs/scripts if you need to perform custom stuff. This design decision is largely why SSE Setup is "Simple, Smart, Easy". For ultra-complex installs or non-typical type installs, SSE Setup may or may not be an ideal fit, but otherwise, you can probably get to your finished end-result in a whole lot less time with SSE Setup.

Free for non-commercial use subject to license conditions.
For commercial use, usage/distribution of installers requires a one-time fee (never pay again) - see License

Real/Unsolicited Testimonials

Access Developers - click here

Download Page for SSE Setup

Screenshots
Sample first installer screen Sample first installer screen

Sample first installer screen #2 Sample first installer screen #2

Launchpad Project Manager Launchpad Project Manager

Booster Project Editor Booster Project Editor

Tutorial Videos

SSE SetupTM is a powerful freeware Windows desktop app installation creator that is easy, full-featured & mature, and has been around almost 20 years with substantial development behind it.

Create your installer in way less time than other installers out there! Go with SSE Setup!

  • Installers run on Windows 11 and all relevant Windows OS's (you choose)
  • Create a fully functional installer in minutes
  • Upgrade/patch support with integrated Internet Updater solution to install updates
  • Prerequisites checks to look for needed hardware / OS's / software
  • Can download any required software (runtimes) your program needs
  • For Access developers: Easy Access database deployment
  • For .NET installs, easy runtime/framework download if user needs
  • Installs 32-bit and 64-bit programs
  • Multilingual installers with built-in modifable translations for 12 of the world's most used languages
  • Familiar but customizable installer user interface
  • Display license agreement that must be agreed to
  • Install files & shortcuts; modify registry
  • Associate filetypes with your software
  • Show welcome screen or custom messages
  • Advanced features such as creating task scheduler tasks, modifying ACL, modifying user privileges, playing audio
  • Unicode & long path friendly
  • Built-in digital signer to sign your files and/or installer with your certificate (you don't need signtool)
  • Project management solution that can save significant time
  • Straight-forward to use, but comes with extensive context-sensitive help that's just a click away

Screenshots Sample first installer screen
Sample first installer screen

Sample first installer screen #2
Sample first installer screen #2

Launchpad Project Manager
Launchpad Project Manager

Booster Project Editor
Booster Project Editor

Tutorial Videos

To create installs, most installers are either scripting based or GUI-based. SSE Setup is GUI-based with a logical & well-thought-out interface, but you can manually edit if you prefer. SSE Setup is purposely not scripting-based because it was designed from the getgo to do what the vast majority of installs need and do it much easier than you having to learn a new scripting language. And you can still run external programs/scripts if you need to perform custom stuff. This design decision is largely why SSE Setup is "Simple, Smart, Easy". For ultra-complex installs or non-typical type installs, SSE Setup may or may not be an ideal fit, but otherwise, you can probably get to your finished end-result in a whole lot less time with SSE Setup.

Free for non-commercial use subject to license conditions.
For commercial use, usage/distribution of installers requires a one-time fee (never pay again) - see License

Real/Unsolicited Testimonials

Access Developers - click here

Download Page for SSE Setup

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