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    Retrieve a .Exe driver

    Hello everyone!
    After doing much research on google, I saw that I was not alone in seeking ways to extract the driver of one .Exe files in particular. Cat. Inf and another (possibly the direct integration to its CD os.Ex: vLite). This solution may take place for driver software incompatible with Vista or other.

    I finally ended up finding the solution which is:
    -install the file. exe
    -then go to the Device Manager (panel configuration, system)
    -Go to the device previously installed then right click property
    -Go into the Details tab and then find the name inf and keep in mind
    -Leave it all open and then go to C: / windows / inf and find your driver. Inf (attention not to move or copy)
    -open. inf (previously stored) and remember the name at the top or generally opposite "catalog files"
    -Then go to C: / Windows / system32 (mm versions for x64-bone) / drivestore / filerepository and search the file names found in the file. Inf
    -Open the file and then ... and yes everything is there! File. Inf file. Sys
    -For a vLite integration or installation manual they all need to recover! (not just. inf files to install if not impossible)
    -It only remains for you to get your drivers uninstall the software and do a manual driver.

    I hope these few lines were able to help you

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    Re: Retrieve a .Exe driver

    Is the EXE file a self-extracting archive of some sort? You might be able to run it using WINE. If it's an actual install program though, you might be out of luck.

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    Re: Retrieve a .Exe driver

    I know HP's drivers you can go to cmd prompt and type spXXX.exe -e and it will allow you to extract the files to a folder you want. Or you can use the HP SSM download manager and it will allow you to extract them.

    Now other exe you can try in a cmd prompt name.exe /? To see if it will give you a list of commands that will allow you to extract the files. You can also try WinZip and see if the EXE will allow you to extract it.

    The other option is to use an application like driver magician that will give the list of drivers on that machine and let you extract the inf files. This is very hand if you have new models in your environment and are unsure of what inf files you need for SATA HD, NIC, and Video.

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    Re: Retrieve a .Exe driver

    If the .exe file is a self-extracting pkzip archive, it looks like the "unzip" app can unzip them.

    http://linuxgazette.net/issue82/tag/1.html
    Some .exe files are "self-extracting archives" which are basically a small MS-DOS PKZIP extractor and a PKZIP (".zip") file packaged together as one file. Under MS-DOS or compatible environments, you can run the .exe file to extract the contents of the zip file.

    Under Linux, the "unzip" utility can extract the contents of the .exe file's PKZIP archive while ignoring the MS-DOS program. See man unzip.

    If you don't have an unzip program on your Linux system, install your distribution's zip package or see: http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip [/b]

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