# ReactOS Installer Has Seen Few Major Changes Over Many Years

DevFeed: [ReactOS Installer Has Seen Few Major Changes Over Many Years](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/on-installers-32980.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/on-installers/>)

Published: 2014-05-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [opensource](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opensource.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

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## AI overview

The article discusses the long-standing ReactOS installer, noting limited major changes apart from resource-usage tuning and initial support for removable devices.

## Source excerpt

The ReactOS installer is probably one of the oldest extant chunks of code in ReactOS that has not undergone significant overhauls for a very long time. Besides some tuning by Alex Ionescu to reduce resource usage and adding initial support for removable devices by Cameron Gutman, it has not seen any real major changes since Eric Kohl put it together all those years ago. For the developers, this was not too much of an issue since the installer did its job perfectly fine for the most part.