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After building my appplication on Windows using maven (and a little bit of ant) I manually create a Winrar Sfx Installer as follows: Select files, right click and select Add to Archive Use Browse.. to create the archive in the folder above Change Archive Format to Zip Enable Create Archive Format Select Advanced tab Select SFX Options Select Setup tab Enter setup.exe into the Run after Extraction field Select Modes tab Enable Unpack to temporary folder Select text and Icon tab Enter new title Select setup.ico from the same folder that we invoked winrar from Select OK Select OK But can I

I am trying to create a self-extracting archive that extracts to "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop" with WinRar. However, when I run it, it extracts to the SFX's current directory, not my desktop. Does the path to extract option work at all? I'm using the 32-bit command line module. I also checked the 'hide all' box for silent mode which appears to do absolutely nothing and the command prompt window still appears with showing information on what is extracted. I want that SFX archive extracts the .exe and the folder contained in the SFX file to the desktop without any messages popping up. Any suggestions?

If this is not the correct place to ask this, I apologize. I use 7zip to create an installer package. Recently, my computer was updated, and I can no longer get it to work. I use a Windows Installer from Visual Studio 2010 to create the installation package, which I add to a file called setup.7z. I have confirmed that the files are archived correctly. I then call copy /b 7zsd.sfx + config.txt + setup.7z setup.exe which packages everything into a single file called " setup.exe ". Clicking on this would start the installer. After the update, I can still make the file, and it looks just fine.

So currently my users download a zipfile, unzip it and then run setup.exe - I would like them to do this with one click. Using http://www.wikihow.com/Use-7Zip-to-Create-Self-Extracting-excutables i can make a self-extracting exe, but it doesn't actually run the installer. From this question Why does 7zip Ignore my InstallPath when making a SFX installer? it seems I also need an .sfx file so I copied from the other question and created one with the following contents ;!@Install@!UTF-8! InstallPath="C:\\test" GUIMode="2" RunProgram="setup.exe" ;!@InstallEnd@! and called setup.sfx and add this to