📅 2010-Dec-03 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ 7zip, setup, universal extractor, windows ⬩ 📚 Archive
Why?
Sometimes you want to pull out a few files from inside the installer or setup file of a program. That is, to extract a few files from the .exe or .msi installer files of a program.
How?
7-Zip is not only the best compression tool on Windows, it can also be used to peek into and extract from most installer files! 😊 A large number of installer files are self-extracting archives or Windows installers or installers created using open-source tools like NSIS. 7-Zip supports uncompressing most of these formats. Just right-click on the installer file and choose 7-Zip →Open Archive or Extract.
For the few installer files which 7-Zip cannot understand, use the Universal Extractor.