If you ever wanted to find out what "hides" inside a .exe file For various reasons (or you download tat The file on the Internet and you find it somewhat suspicious, or you need resources inside it, or you want to change it in one way or another), the last version 7-zip gives you the opportunity to extract files from it as from a ordinary archive Or you can open the direct file to inspect the "interior".
7-Zip It's a software open-source (freeware) and one of the most popular archiving, widely used by Windows users.
* High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
* Supported formats:
– Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
– Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 79 languages
The newest version of this archive (9.20) are integrated in Installer command line with the help of which Windows users can extract the components of a .exe or of one .msi, namely file.exe /extract <path to extract> (where file is the name of the .exe file and path to extract It is the folder in which you want to extract the file components). Using 7-ZIP to open .exe files, you can navigate through them as through Folders ordinary.
To open a .exe file with 7-Zip Click-right on it and select 7zp from the menu then select Open arhive. To open the folders contained by the .exe file, click-right on them and then select Open Inside. Or simply click on 7zp > Extract files.
7-Zip v9.20 {Filelink = 7}
Note: The components extracted from a .exe file cannot be compressed again in .exe format with 7ZP, but you can find online .zp in .exe archives
