What are the benfits of a standalone Windows .exe vs an installer?

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Published on 2010-04-22T12:20:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 12:23 UTC
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I am trying to make an application as easy to deploy as possible for Windows and I am trying to choose between packaging the application as a .exe or using an installer. I was wondering if anyone had opinions on the relative merits of either way? My preference would be to use a .exe as it would be just click and run for a user.

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