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Extracting .exe executables and back again using 7-Zip?

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Mar 15, 202625278 views
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I figured out, by accident, that I can extract .exe executables (what for?). Though the files make no sense whatsoever, how do I put those extracted files back into an .exe executable?

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Fix for: Extracting .exe executables and back again using 7-Zip?

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Many installers use self-extracting archives (SFX) to pack a compressed file archive together with the programming necessary to extract the archive. With SFX, you don't need an external application to extract the files. Historically, this avoided th…

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