how to extract exe files
author : voidzzz | category : How-To.for those of you who need to extract exe files and grab whats inside the exe, i’ll show you how to do that manually.
You can simply do this using compression utility such as winrar or 7zip. but it just won’t work for a few exe files such as those that comes from intel website.
As an example, i use Intel SATA/AHCI driver that can be downloaded here.
To extract the file :
- Launch Command Prompt
- Go to the directory where you save/download IATA85ENU.exe
- Type the following command :
IATA85ENU.exe /A /P C:\IATA
The files will be extracted to C:\IATA (or any folder that you point in the command above)
Alternatively you can use Universal Extractor
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Its not running
@ilhami : what file exactly you want to extract ? and what is the error that you got ?
Hi, it is only runs the given exe file, I cannot see any extraction to the specified folder.
this method is not working from the cmd line in Win 7.
im on WinXP sp3 and i have this error :
C:\>x264-32bit.exe /A /P C:\extracted-files
x264 [error]: No output file. Run x264 –help for a list of options.
Thats all…
I tried with Universal Etractor and 7zip, firt cant extract cuz it says “UPX” file. And 7zip give me 3 files : UPX0, UPX1 and UPX2.
And i cant do nothing with those files…
Any idea?
thx
Will
i tried this to :
x264-32bit.exe /t:C:\extracted_files\ /c
and
c:\x264-32bit.exe -a -a -pc:\
but not working too…
:(