How to extract drivers from .exe packages

Pc manufactures  are now using self-extracting EXE packages to install drivers when you down load them from there support websites.

Which is very handy when you have one or two pc’s to install the drivers on to, but not so much when you are building an image for multiple pc’s or trying to look at driver file without having to run the .exe or install it.

This is where the universal extractor software is very helpful tool to use.

Download from here – Universal Extractor

Run the Uniextract Installer and go though the steps of installing accepting all the defaults and let it install

Once installed right-click on the self-extracting EXE files you want the driver from and select uniextract files

Universal Extractor context menu

This will open the Universal Extractor file/destination GUI

The top bar is the location of self-extracting EXE file and the bottom bar is the location you wish the file to extracted to.

Universal Extractor file/destination GUI
(Top bar is location of the self-extracting EXE files)
(Bottom bar is location you want it extracted to)

Left click OK and it go though the process of extracting the files out of the self-extracting EXE and put them in the destination folder you specified and there you will find the driver you needed.