operating system A
utility program to ease the
installation of another, probably larger,
application. It
is also possible for
hardware to have an installer accompany
The installer commonly asks the user to enter desired
configuration options for the main program or hardware, and
sets up various initialisation files accordingly, as well as
Some badly designed operating systems require applications to
provide an
uninstaller because of the number of different
files modified or created during the installation process.
(1998-02-09)