Extract CAB from EXE without activesync?

[havox22]

Originally Posted by santod

yes, it does it on the phone. I made it into a .cab. Did you want the .exe instead?

Just tap and hold the item you want to extract, it will give you a dropdown with the option to extract and to choose a location to extract to.

no thank you a cab is just fine

[santod]

Here is another app. you could try. This was a small app. put together for this purpose. Convert .exe to .cab.

[skeegcpp]

but winrar(dont think its free) allows u to extract files on the desktop


santod..i thanked u for that cab.....

[santod]

No problem, let me know how it works for you, anyone that uses it.

[tjhooker74]

I sometimes just email the cab file to my email address then I save it on my storage card. No activesync required.

[[sammich]]

Use uniextractor. It adds a right-click option on any .exe file. Its what i use.

[selytch]

Well, I ended up running a procmon on a computer with admin rights and finding the tricky directory the program was sending cabs to.
Thanks everybody for responses!

[oldman]

Was found on: http://blogs.technet.com/vik/archive...r-sd-card.aspx
A lot of times you want to be able to install all your applications directly from you SD card, but most applications don't make that easy. Most of the time all you get from the application vendor is the PC installer. To get the CAB file you can normally do the following:

Most applications make it easy to find the .cab file you need for a direct install on your pocket PC. They are usually located on your desktop PC in the following folders:

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft ActiveSync\AppName
• C:\Program Files\AppName
• C:\AppName

In most cases you can just copy and paste the cab file into to your storage card.
The trickier installation routines delete the CAB file after the installation, however the only way to install a program is through a .cab (or to copy an .exe) so every installer has to leave the .cab file on your harddrive for a small portion of time. For those installers here are the steps to getting the files:

1. Connect your device
2. Run the install for the program, click the appropriate yes's until,
3. The Activesync message box for "install to default location" comes up--at this point don't click anything, let it sit
4. Use the windows search or find feature(depending on what version of windows you are using) and search your local drives (including hidden and system folders) for *.cab it helps if you have an idea what the file name might be, or the date of the file, or what the temporary subdirectory it might be placed in is called, regardless that search will list all of the .cab files on your machine at that time.
5. Copy and paste the .cab to your favorite storage location.

[elephant007]

I'd like to suggest 7Zip, I used to be a firm believer in WinRAR until I found this jewel called 7Zip, it will uncompress non compressed files it's so powerful!!!
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html