Microsoft Windows comes with a handy tool for us to create self-extracting/self-installing package.
There are a lot of applications for us to zip/unzip files/folders, some of them even let users to create self-extracting package. Winzip, WinRar, and 7-zip are among the famous applications which provide these features. But, do you know that Windows actually comes with built-in tool to do this?
Steps
- Go to Start -> Run -> type “iexpress“.
- An IExpress Wizard will popup. Choose “Create new Self Extraction Directive file” and press Next.
- Choose “Extract files only” and press Next. Then give your package a name.
- After you name your package, press Next for the following dialog boxes, until you asked to add files into your package.
- Here, i had added 2 files. After you add your files, press Next to continue.
- Press Next for the following dialog boxes. After that, provide target path and filename for your package, and you can choose to either create a Self Extraction Directive file or not. This is to let you modify the package in future.
- Done. Now you created a “xxx.exe” package which will extract to targeted location when launch.
