Active Setup
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Active Setup is the installation technology Microsoft used for downloading and installing Internet Explorer
versions 4
to 6
. It was designed to selectively download and install signed Internet Explorer components via the Internet. This significantly reduced the amount of data to download as also the time required for updates. Active Setup could also resume partially completed downloads from the point where they were interrupted.
Active Setup was also used for Microsoft Outlook
98 setup.
Active Setup still available into Windows 7. It is mainly design to complete specific run once settings for each users logged in the machine, for a first time, after installed the active setup. This can be used as complementary the MSI Self-heal feature, but is not dependent or related MSI
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Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
versions 4
Internet Explorer 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 is a graphical web browser released in September 1997 by Microsoft, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for Apple Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX and marketed as "The Web the Way You Want It".It was one of the main participants of the first...
to 6
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 6 is the sixth major revision of Internet Explorer, a web browser developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems...
. It was designed to selectively download and install signed Internet Explorer components via the Internet. This significantly reduced the amount of data to download as also the time required for updates. Active Setup could also resume partially completed downloads from the point where they were interrupted.
Active Setup was also used for Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
98 setup.
Active Setup still available into Windows 7. It is mainly design to complete specific run once settings for each users logged in the machine, for a first time, after installed the active setup. This can be used as complementary the MSI Self-heal feature, but is not dependent or related MSI
MSI
-Computing:* Windows Installer, an installer system written by Microsoft for Windows platforms * Medium Scale Integration, a generation of integrated circuit chips which contain hundreds of transistors...
technics
See also
- ActiveXActiveXActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way. Software applications can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide their functionality....
- Sample Active Setup build