WallGen was designed to be simple to install, so it doesn't have a setup application. The distribution contains only three files:
WallGen can be run from the user's hard drive, or installed on a network. Each machine can save most of the wallpaper settings so if you run the program again in the future, you don't have to start all over just to change the version number of the browser. Note that these settings are on a per-machine basis, not a per-user.
Installing on a local machine is accomplished by copying the executable file to the hard drive and creating a shortcut to it. If you want the HTML Help file, you may copy that, too.
Installing on a network can be as simple as copying the executable file (and optionally, the help file) to a shared drive on a server. This configuration allows for a more powerful setup, because you can set up your own program defaults for all users running WallGen from the network. To do this, run WallGen from a machine that has write privileges on the server after you install WallGen. Set up the program options the way you want and click the Save As... button. Check the box labeled Save master settings for network. The other boxes are optional. This will set the program options for other machines that run WallGen from this server location.
Here's how it works. When WallGen is launched, it looks in the local machine's Windows folder for its settings file, WallGen32.ini. If that is found, it is used to set the program options. Otherwise, it looks for a settings file in the folder where WallGen is located. The second case is where the "master settings" are stored.
One caveat; If you want to define a default custom logo for a network install, that custom logo bitmap file must be in the same folder with the WallGen executable. This is necessary so the client machine on the network can find the logo file. WallGen will warn you if you try to save master settings with a custom logo bitmap file that is not in the same folder with WallGen .