Onno said:
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There was another great program for creating these compressed install
routines that was a kind of PlugIn for PowerArchiver. I do not know if
it is still freeware or available at all since PA went shareware. If it
still exists, it would be my number one for creating compressed
executables for its many abilities.
If I understand what you want, PowerArchiver can do this, and it
doesn't need a plugin, the capability is built into it. I'm running
ver 6.11, which is the last freeware version, I believe. It can create
self-extracting exe files that automatically run setup.exe (or
whatever executable you want) after extraction.
Note that this is not quite the same as running setup.exe from within
the archive without extracting it (as the OP stated). That wouldn't
work if the setup.exe file needs some other file in the archive. FWIW
I don't think Winzip self-extracting installs work that way, either.
Terry