Self-Extractor

The Self-Extractor is part of each ZIP self-extracting archive. It starts when the self-extracting archive is opened. It unpacks the archive to the target directory chosen by the user (or optionally to a designated directory without prompting).

Features:

ZIP format compatibility, including older ZIP formats.
Extraction of encrypted files.
Support for spanned self-extracting archives.
Available in several language versions.
Custom title and text in the main self-extractor dialog.
Option to display a message box with user-defined text when the self-extractor starts.
Custom icon in the self-extractor dialog and executable file.
Custom text for the "extract" button.
The Self-Extractor can start a program (e.g., your installer), open a document, or open an HTTP link when extraction is finished.
Ability to run standard .inf files as an alternative to setup programs.
Remove files extracted to a temporary folder when the started program finishes.
Remove files from a temporary folder even if the installation program involves a reboot.
Ability to wait for a specified program to finish before temporary files are removed.
Option to specify the target directory as the current directory, the temporary directory, the Program Files directory, the Windows directory, the System directory, or a directory specified by an environment variable or Registry value.
Option to specify a subdirectory to create in the target directory when extracting the self-extracting archive.
Options to start extraction automatically, to hide the main Self-Extractor dialog, to suppress the summary message box, and to automatically overwrite files in the target directory.
Easy and user-friendly environment for creating self-extracting archives in Sally using the ZIP plugin.
Ability to create self-extracting archives from the command line (using the command-line tool Zip2Sfx, which you can find in the plugins\zip\zip2sfx subdirectory of Sally's installation directory).

The Self-Extractor executable is packaged in a compact SFX package (file) with language-dependent data (such as texts in the main dialog). For each supported language, there is one standalone SFX package. SFX packages are distributed with the ZIP plugin.