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Lanrei 2 days ago

Neat. I usually just use 7zip to open .exe and .msi files.

hypercube33 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think 7zip really can see into a lot of janky MSI files to get the actual installed content, can it?...it can technically break open NSIS files and get the source but that is disabled in code after 15.05 (GitHub has a mod to renable source extraction fyi) and yes self extracting exe files.

rmast 2 days ago | parent [-]

My experience with 7zip has been that it can read the tables and cab files from MSI files, but when you go to extract the contents you just get the raw files without the directory restructure associated with the MSI file (and the names of the extracted files can also have issues).

atmanactive 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Let's not forget Universal Extractor: https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2

WarOnPrivacy a day ago | parent [-]

I had forgotten. For years and years it was part of my install everywhere kit. This is a good reacquaintance.