Is it possible to extract drivers out of an exe installer?

[tracerit]

I have a Rosewill RNX-EasyN1 USB wireless adapter but I can't install the drivers becaue my system can't open the exe installer. A window just pops up with a red X and it's blank. I tried the exe on another computer and it works, so i'm wondering is it possible to extract the files out of it and then direct Windows to the folder to pick up the drivers?

 

[McLovin]

I've used 7zip to do this many times no problem.

 

[tracerit]

I've used 7zip to do this many times no problem.

I tried it but it's still not working. This is the link to the file btw: http://www.rosewill.com/Mgnt/Upload...ess_adapter_v1.4.0_xp_vista_win7_32_64bit.zip

 

[Emulex]

winrar usually works better than 7-zip

btw you either just gave my vm a virus or the driver installed fine (without wlan util because those sux) on my win7 32bit boxen. it looks like it threw something in the temp dir for a brief second or two.

so the link works here. lol. damn now i gotta revert snapshot

 

[Dahak]

if winrar or 7zip does not work and you say it worked on another computer you can on that other computer go to start run type in %temp% this will open up the temp folder, delete all the files in there run the installer and it should create a new folder with the drivers in it. then you can copy that and used it on the machine that the install will not run on

 

[airdata]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZKOVZIkMIQ

I have used a program before but not sure what it was called. This youtube video shows a guy using an exe extractor program called 'universal extractor'.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/Universal-Extractor.shtml

 

[bruceb]

You are trying to do this the hard way. Just go here:

http://rosewill.com/products/d_1280/productDetail.htm

and download the ones you need for your OS

 

[JackMDS]

Unzip the Rosewill File.

Download and run this, http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract

Use it to Extract the files from the unzipped exe file.

You will get the raw disk 1 of the installation and it might be that it will work.