Self Extracting Application creator.

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Gen-ik
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Self Extracting Application creator.

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Does anyone know of any free (or shareware that never times-out) programs that create Self Extracting EXE files ?

All I need is to basically crunch up a load of files into an .EXE file and then when the .EXE is executed by someone else it will un-crunch the files into a folder that I want the files to go... (c:\\gen-iks_files\) for example.

Any help would be great.
Thanks.
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Post by m3mn0n »

A friend once recommended this to me: Zip 2 Secure EXE
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"ZIP 2 Secure EXE" is a utility program that creates self-extracting ZIP files for
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Self-extracting ZIP files are executable programs (EXEs) that contain a ZIP file and the software necessary to unzip the contents. Users can unzip the contents of a self-extracting ZIP simply by running it like any other program. No other software is needed.
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Or check out WinRAR, it has this feature too (and support for some sort of internal scripting)
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or the nullsoft installer at http://nsis.sourceforge.net
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Post by Gen-ik »

I will check them out.
Thanks for the pointers guys.
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Anytime.
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