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7-Zip 9.20 (2010-11-18) for Windows

A decent file archiver, compresses and extracts a variety of archive and file types!

How to turn 7-Zip archives (.7z) into Self-Extracting archives (.exe)

  1. Open Windows Explorer and locate the 7-Zip archive you want to convert.

  2. Highlight the 7-Zip archive and right click on it to display the mouse context menu.

  3. Select "Convert to a Self-Extracting .exe". Note that this menu will only appear if the shell extension is installed.

  4. The following dialog box will appear: You can modify the pre-defined settings if you wish. Otherwise click on "Create" to continue.

  5. Paquet Builder will be opened silently and some seconds after that, your Self-Extracting archive is created if everything was fine.

  6. If you launch the .exe file, you (and anyone you send the .exe to) will see this result.and when clicking Next.

You select the path where you want your files to be extracted to and you click Next. 7-Zip is not required at all. You can change the title "Paquet Archive" using the "Archive Title" field.

Click on "Advanced Options" to change some default parameters:

"Description" lets you change the text that appears in the Welcome step of the wizard. You can even specify an icon file for the Self-Extracting .exe file. You can even change the splash bitmap, the homepage URL and the text of the Welcome dialog in Paquet Builder. Paquet Builder can create tailored Self-Extracting archives: you can customize your SFX archives from A to Z in a snap.