Using windows explorer go to c:\Install.I would recommend using NotePad++ to edit this text file as you will need to encode in UTF-8, the following instructions are using notepad++. You need to download the 9.20 version (as May-2015) as the beta does not contain the correct files.Follow this link to go to 7zip download.Step 3 – Get the 7z-Extra sfx extension module Name your archive “Installer.7z” (or a name of your choice).Right-Click and choose 7Zip –> “Add to Archive”.Go to the folder that has your msi and your setup.exe.This is where we will copy all the required files. To make this easy create a folder c:\Install. It is actually quite simple to do if you follow these easy steps. How to make a self extracting archive that launches your installer after extraction I have finally worked it out and below are some detailed instructions. I wanted to use 7Zip to create the self extracting archive but I could not seem to find a simple guide that explained exactly how to do it. The self extracting archive option seems the best. Create a self extracting archive that runs, extracts the software and then calls the setup.exe.Just provide the msi file, but this by passes the pre-requisite checks which is not ideal or.Zip the two files – the user has to download a zip, extract the zip and run the setup.exe. So you want to provide a download for your product from your website as a single file. setup.exe – which is the bootstrap that does your pre-requisite checks.When you use the default Microsoft Visual Studio Installer (yes, it is back as an extension for VS 2013 – Visual studio Installer Projects Extension), the output are two files:
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