Universal Extractor 1.6.1

Rated 50/50 by IcemanAsakura at Apr 5, 2008

I love this program. I use it at home, and also at work for helping me to extract moronic installers that don't like to be silently installed. It's not perfect, but its the very best application like it in it's class hands down. For that, it gets 5 stars.

Rated 50/50 by elitegangsta at Oct 21, 2008

This defiantly works. Very clean, stable, don't know it is even on your system until you need to call upon it. Superb programming in it's class. Keep up the great work dev. team!

Rated 50/50 by horsecharles at Oct 22, 2008

One of my most useful programs... i use it, along with 7zip, to extract all kinds of file types. Up until this latest update, it used to be that both progs complemented each other / were able to handle types the other one couldn't. Universal Extractor thus merited more of a 4-4½ rating...but we gave it 5 because of its freeware status-- favorably comparing with payware like Power Archiver. However, as 7zip updated more and more, it pulled ahead to favored status. But now, with this much-needed & overdue latest release, Universal Extractor has caught up to 7zip. 1.6 (10/17/2008): Added support for individual user preferences for better Vista support; by default, this is enabled for standalone, disabled for installed when enabled, UniExtract uses single .ini file as with previous version when disabled, individual prefs/history are saved to registry in HKCU this can be changed by modifying globalprefs setting in .ini file Added menu bar to main GUI; includes options to quit, edit preferences, and visit UniExtract website Added separate preferences GUI to provide easy access to all options; can be invoked through Edit menu or through '/prefs' argument Added support for DiscJuggler CDI CD-ROM images via cdirip.exe Added support for FEAD Optimizer packages (eg, Adobe Reader installers) Added support for LZMA compressed files via lzma Added support for LZX compressed files via unlzx Added support for Nero NRG CD-ROM images (data only) via nrg2iso Added support for Reflexive Arcade installer wrapper via RAIU Added support for RoboForm installers Added support for WIM (Windows Imaging Format) images via 7-Zip Added "Not an InstallShield installer" option to InstallShield method select dialog to force UniExtract to handle TrID InstallShield false positives Added components section to installer; makes installation of docs, languages, and certain (large) binaries o

Rated 50/50 by PSXp-ONE at Oct 22, 2008

Woohoo!! yes! yes! yes! another one of my favorite tools updated. Coover, I've never used Extract Now, but from what I could understand after a google search, I guess that just works as another archive extracting tool to which we already have plenty to choose from. However, Universal Extractor is different, I mean...you can pretty much extract all kinds of archives with this as well but the main reason I use this is because it allows me to extract files from installers (exe & msi) files without the need to install the program, why is that useful? because you can make SOME programs portable. In some cases it doesn't work but most of the time it does...I haven't tried this new version yet since I just found out it's been updated but I'm sure it's been improved! give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

Rated 50/50 by Virtual_ManPL at Oct 25, 2008

Awesome... !!! Unpack almost every installer...

Rated 50/50 by SuzzyWoozy at Mar 25, 2009

Mandatory program on my computer, along with 7zip (see horsecharles'review below why). While 7zip simply extracts the content of the installer (if possible), the Universal Extractor seems to sanbox the installer run and get the files inside. I'm using 7zip as first choice or Universal Installer if the first don't work. What I would like to see is a cascading context menu option, putting 3+ new items on explorer's right click is not the best approach.

Rated 40/50 by felixml at Apr 13, 2009

good, but not as good as WinRAR

Rated 50/50 by JustForMyMemory at Feb 11, 2010

@felixml: are you mad or something? the developer said it is not intended to replace extractor. it contains numberous of small extension-based extractors to extract. it was still smart and wise. great soft.

Rated 50/50 by nvic at May 12, 2010

Can't live without it. I use this almost daily. For some installers, this is the only tool that will unpack them.

Rated 50/50 by jblane at May 12, 2010

Great software, it does what it says, and I'm not certainly talking about zip or rar archives but installers, packed EXEs and unusual packers.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at May 12, 2010

Winrar has nothing on this. I use it for extracting installers to a portable location of my choice. Some are locked and some are passworded and others just don't extract well and have to be installed, copied, and then uninstalled. Take the siw setup a few links above this and use ue to grab the {app} folder. Why some stuff even has an installer I don't know. Portable too go figure. http://download.c1pher.c...niextract161_noinst.rar

Rated 40/50 by Plumber at May 12, 2010

Actually MSI Unpacker has been available for years (jsware.net).