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Possible To Extract Files from Installer?

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potissimus

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Hello there. I couldn't decide if this topic was supposed to go in the Highly technical or the Technical Support forum, so I hope I chose correctly.

Here is my question. Is there any way to extract the contents of a "setup.exe" without running the installer itself?
 
For those who want to know, I am trying to install this program, but the installer only looks on C:\ to install. My C:\ is full and am trying to install it on my D:\ partition.

I've done some more reading, but still haven't found any way to do this. Is it safe to assume that it cannot be done?
 
Depends on the installer package it's using and whether or not it supports any switches to extract the files.

The updates you get from the Microsoft site, for example, support extraction by running the update.exe file with a /x switch. Might dig around on the application site and see if there are any command-line switches supported.
 
It really depends on how the installer was built by the software company. If it is only 1 file (setup.exe) with no other files, then probally not. sometimes the additional files are in a zip file, in which case you can simply copy from the zip file. I assume you can not change the destination when the installer is running?
 
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