Universal Extractor is a free program designed to decompress and extract files from almost all types of archive or installer, such as ZIP or RAR files, self-extracting EXE files, application installers, etc.
Keep in mind Universal Extractor is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. It cannot (and never will) create archives, and therefore cannot fully replace archivers such as 7-Zip or WinRAR. What it will do, however, is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, file format, compression method, etc.
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Someone
7-zip can also extract from any type of file.
BTW, VG take screenshots yourself. That screenshot is 11 years old.
VG
^^ Yes. I also use 7-Zip. ;)
randomcore
yw! :)
yes, 7-zip is a great one, too. love it!
universal extractor is a bit more advanced. see technical details and supported formats at it's website. eg it can make use of installshield and msi components to extract the contents the right way. try to unpack a .msi file using 7-zip and you'll see that the file structure would be another (less useful) one.
Uewd
I use 7-zip for extracting files from any type. Anyway thanks.
EGA
thanks for sharing......this is what I need :)
Voyeur
This is useful for extracting installers.
leomate
Universal Extractor is useful for you that want to see installer data.
Rtyh-12
If I made my own archive format, would it read it? (not that I would have the skillz, of course)
Deba
I use Norton Dns and legroom.net/software/uniextract site found to be malicious and blocked by Norton.
Are you sure Its Not a Malware Program?
wildgoosespeeder
I use 7-Zip and IZArc interchangeably. WinRAR sucks! :P
I use NSIS's Zip2exe program to create self-extracting archives!