Universal Extractor allows you to extract files from a wide variety of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, as well as MSI and EXE files created using various installer packages (such as Nullsoft, Wise, Inno Setup, etc). Useful for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation process. Note that the original developer no longer updates the program so some manual updates may be required.
Alternatively, an unofficial version with the latest-and-greatest internals is available (on Lupo's PenSuite site).
Commercial use note: license restrictions are present on included files UHARC02.EXE and UHARC04.EXE, but can be deleted without dramatic impact on the software. See website for more information.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. Included libraries may write to the registry. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Main program: GPL, Included libraries: various, see note about commercial use |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Universal Extractor 2 |
What's new? |
Added support for environmental variables (eg., specify %temp% for debug dir) Added support for XZ compressed files and txz/tlz archives via 7-Zip Added support for Windows Installer merge modules (.msm) via MsiX Added support for NBH files via NBHextract Added translations for Armenian, Czeck, Persian (Farsi), Serbian, Swedish Changed 7-Zip unpacking behavior; now attempts brute force extraction only after External PEiD scan; change due to aggressive .exe resource extraction in new versions Changed Windows installer support (.msi, .msp) to use MsiX instead of msi2xml Changed LZMA support to use 7-Zip for extraction Changed FEAD support to use PEiD rather than TrID for detection Changed following formats to call 7z by name (also see 7-Zip debug comment): bz2, chm, gz, tar, Z this is mostly for code cleanup; functionality should be the same Fixed InstallShield 5.x regression in 1.6 preventing successful extraction Fixed bug in extraction of non-TAR LZW compressed files Fixed bug that prevented picking files after toggling history option Fixed bug in display of history combo boxes when no items listed Fixed cosmetic bug in Visual C++ SFX status dialog Fixed cosmetic bug in status dialogs due to extra padding by AutoIt Removed lzma helper binary Removed msi2xml helper binary and MSXML download link on MSI selection page Removed Windows NT 4.0 support from installer Removed debug output for 7-Zip, arj, hlp; buffers output, preventing proper user feedback and input prompts Updated success/fail detection to check output directory timestamp; can detect cases where files are overwritten, which old method missed; will still consider failed if user chooses not to overwrite files, or if all files are written to a subdirectory of the output directory Updated RPM and DEB support to extract interim CPIO and TAR files Updated FEAD support to workaround read-only permission issue Updated Zip support to log unzip output and permit minor reported unzip errors Updated PEiD detection of Microsoft SFX cab files for more reliable extraction Updated some UniExtract window sizes for better internationalization support Updated translations for Italian, Korean, Russian Updated 7-Zip to 9.13 beta Updated AutoIt to 3.3.6.1 and replaced deprecated _ArrayCreate UDF Updated InfoZip unzip to 6.0.0 Updated Inno Setup to 5.3.9 Updated innounp to 0.31 (supports Inno Setup 5.3.9) Updated InstallExplorer WCX to 0.9.2 Updated MSI WCX to 1.2.1 Updated PEiD to 0.95 Updated UnRAR to 3.93 |
@webfork Someone ought to change at portablefreeware.com/faq.php#extract the "Universal Extractor" Link to the updated fork UniExtract2
v1.6.1
@so-called Numanoid - http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4719
v1.6.1
This programme is in fact pretty much useless, there hasn't been one exe I have tried to extract over the last couple of months, where the so-called Universal Extractor has failed me :-(
v1.6.1
It's a bit OTT calling this an universal extractor, as many EXE files I try to extract with it, leads to error messages that the so-scalled universal extractor can't extract them.
v1.6.1
Updated 1.7.7.87a Latest Mod of the Gora version http://www.wincert.net/forum/topic/9785-repak-universal-extractor-17787a-gora-mod/
v1.6.1
From your post @ http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=62408#p62408 I guess you were able to educate yourself, smallhagrid. I only wish you'd document your fiddlings in there, too...
For others seeking education, I'd recommend browsing through all the comments here and also at links posted in http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=60733#p60733 ...
v1.6.1
Sorry, should have included the link:
http://forum.oszone.net/post-1868252.html
v1.6.1
Latest=>
Universal Extractor 1.6.1 Release (build 66 *)
Updated by Gora 21/01/2013.
I got the file and have extracted the uextract.exe which is a 7z SFX file that is PW protected unless executed directly.
This is a problem for me as it installs in C: and I don't install things there at all.
I tried the method Gora posted for using extract,exe and it did not work; nothing I've tried has worked for this.
Has anyone here gotten Gora's file to extract without having to run it; and if so, would you please educate me ?!?
Thanks.
v1.6.1
Latest updated mod by Gora, 29/10/2012:
Universal_Extractor_1.6.1.65_sl2p_121029_11-11.7z
Mirrors:
http://mir.cr/0J28IFHI
I hope that this helps. Please let me know if this can't be posted here.
v1.6.1
@betsaida: I have changed the link to point to the forum topic instead.
v1.6.1