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 |
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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 |
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billon
on 2014-11-01 15:05
@so-called Numanoid - http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4719
betsaida
on 2022-08-28 07:09
@webfork Someone ought to change at portablefreeware.com/faq.php#extract the "Universal Extractor" Link to the updated fork UniExtract2
Andrew Lee
on 2022-08-30 07:22
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@betsaida: I have changed the link to point to the forum topic instead. |
GreatNews is a RSS feed reader with a special "full page" mode for easier browsing. In full page mode, news articles are assembled into a single page that displays both headlines and excerpts. You can change the number of articles per page, as well as the display style. Other features include New Watches (list all articles with matching keywords), Labels (list all articles with matching labels) and Search Channels (from Yahoo Company News, Feedster, MSN and Flickr).
NOTE: Site is down, linking to Internet Archive.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GreatNews.exe. |
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nikkho
on 2017-10-26 17:19
Download links: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/GreatNews/
webfork
on 2019-10-25 09:46
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@hamasaki: I retested both today and they seem to be working fine. Hopefully it was just a brief outage |
UPX is a tool that can reduce the size of system files (EXE and DLL) significantly. No additional software is required after compression and some programs will even run faster due to fewer read operations.
UPX Tool is a GUI wrapper for UPX, able to both compress and decompress.
There is an unofficial update created by Lupo PenSuite (UPX Tool+ 1.1.1) that can be download here. The main advantage of this update is functionality with UPX 3.0 (improved compression via LZMA).
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | PortableApps AppCompactor |
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carbonize
on 2010-02-11 15:27
Just remember that programs compressed using UPX will get reported as a virus by some anti virus software.
Irgen
on 2010-11-20 02:41
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ClamWin report "Trojan.Spy-75883 FOUND";Avira report:"TR/PSW.Agent.nup";Please check; and scan with online malware scanner almost report virus |
A simple graphical frontend for QEMU that lets you boot any LiveCD ISO image in a virtual machine without complicated settings in only a few clicks.
QEMU is a processor emulator that provides you with VMWare-style virtual machines using a technique called "dynamic translation" that gives good performance.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | No. Writes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and installs kqemu driver where administrator rights is available. |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch MobaLiveCD_v2.1.exe. |
What's new? |
(Cf. https://www.mobatek.net/mobalivecd_changelog.txt) |
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Wiz
on 2011-04-26 18:14
Tried it today on WinXP SP3 PC with a Kingston 4 GB USB flash drive and a Linux image for eeePC. The experience was horrible. I choose to not create a virtual disk (in belief that all would be done in RAM). After the Linux image start execution my brand new USB was corrupted, no data, not readable in Windows. After formatting it reports only 0.9 GB instead of 4 GB. I have rescued it using some low level utility and make an experiment in order to know is the corruption caused by MobaLiveCD v2.1 or not. After the booted image reports disk writing immediately USB stick LED indicates a writing operation and the stick became corrupted again. What if someone starts such utility from HDD? Did my experience mean that this tool can corrupt HDD too?
Roshan
on 2011-05-07 15:38
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Wiz may b yr pen drive is faulty. Try to format it with hp usb format utility. Mobalive does not boot 64bit linux. Pity. I downloaded centos n mepis x64 but no use. Both the live images r not booting thru usb also. Can anyone help in this regard. |
FastStone MaxView is a fast and compact image viewer that supports major graphic formats. The program includes multiple view options including zoom and full screen, and supports touch interfaces. The program can be used to quickly rotate (lossless), resize, crop, annotate and print images, It includes slideshows with 150+ transitional effects and background music, detailed image information including EXIF metadata.
The program supports BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA etc. It also supports digital camera RAW formats, including: CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG.
Note: V2.2 is the last freeware release. As of V2.3, it has turned 30-day trialware.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MaxView.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Xlideit Image Viewer, NexusImage |
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FlashY_Fool
on 2011-03-16 13:13
i use manga meeya as viewer to show pics in zipped file
AdrianK_IT
on 2015-03-17 16:12
Another potentially brilliant app for random slideshow viewing of images under voice commands - ruined by the fact that when you pause a slideshow, a 'Paused' message appears on screen, and doesn't go away (until you un-pause)!
uwotm8
on 2016-08-03 10:48
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https://web.archive.org/web/20081120005932/http://www.faststone.org//FSMaxViewDetail.htm |
FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.
Reported to function in Windows 7 and in Linux under WINE.
Note: FastStone Capture went payware starting from v5.4 so I have made the last freeware version available (v5.3) for direct download as the license agreement does not prohibit redistribution.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of drive-less absolute path (eg. \docs\personal\work.doc without the drive letter) |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FSCapture.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Greenshot, PicPick, ShareX |
What's new? |
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webfork
on 2016-06-02 02:58
@jimdorey: I'm a little confused why we had a listing that this works with Win10 -- it really doesn't. When this version of the program stopped being developed, Win7 wasn't even out yet. Anyway, I recommend trying another software package for that OS. I've updated the entry.
joby_toss
on 2016-06-02 11:49
@jimdorey: v5.3 works fine on my win 10 x64 using a 1080p screen resolution. Maybe you're using a high DPI screen/4k monitor, and only the last version (8.4, payware, but worth every penny) works fine in that case.
__philippe
on 2016-10-14 15:57
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Don't care for FSC freeware near inaudible screenshot audio cue ? |
@icon sushi is an image-to-icon converter that supports alpha channel, transparency mask, WinXP 32-bit icons and multi-icon ICO files. It imports ICO, BMP, PNG, PSD, EXE, DLL and ICL files. It exports ICO, BMP, PNG and ICL files.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
Full changelog at http://www.towofu.net/soft/aicon_history_e.txt. |
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Nergal
on 2009-01-30 15:45
Seems to Work perfect on Vista SP1
Wizzer at Colour4Free
on 2009-09-07 12:06
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Tried most of the icon editors listed and found that the application works in XP SP3 and Vista. |
DIZzy displays DIZ, NFO and other confusing, ASCII-extended text files in a pleasing graphic format. It supports drag-and-drop, and command line.
NOTE: Website is gone, linking to Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download dizzy.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
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anonymous
on 2009-12-04 19:31
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a very simple nfo viewer without all the bells and whistles, and at only 9kb how could you go wrong? |
Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D game based on the old arcade classic in which you must destroy enemy ships by shooting them up. It should run on any machine with a 3D accelerator card and OpenGL drivers.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Windows registry. Therefore it is portable only if you are not too concerned about keeping your high scores across machines. |
Dependencies: | MSVCR70.DLL |
Stealth: ? | No |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Space Invaders OpenGL.exe. |
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Ravge
on 2006-11-02 16:54
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i found that the game seems easy but when you get far you lose ALOT of energy (health)... the game itself is highly addicting. My little bro scored 50000 |