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Convert Self-extracting compressed file archive to WinZIP Compressed ZIP archive.

We have found 3 software records in our database eligible for .exe to .zip file format conversion.

In most cases exe to zip conversion is used to change change self-extracting archives (.exe) to simple ZIP archives (.zip). This can be achieved using many of the currently available file managers and/or file compressors, such as WinRAR, WinZIP etc.

The main purpose of this conversion is the security concerns as a lot of users distrusts .exe files when they are used to share content.

Updated: August 10, 2021

Microsoft Windows software - convert exe to zip on Windows

WinZip

Popular file archiver for Windows

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from exe file	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
to zip file	No	Yes	Yes	zip editor	Yes	No	No	Yes

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned exe to zip. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

WinRAR

One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes

7-zip

Popular open source file archiver with a high compression ratio

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes

Additional links: Open exe file, Open zip file

EXE

Files with exe file extension can also be found as special self-extracting compress archives. They are basically archives with a small executable program added so the end-user does not require any software to decompress it. Can be password protected.

ZIP

Files with zip is associated with the WinZip compression tool. ZIP file is compressed archive container that contains archived files, compressed in ZIP compression format. Common archive format that can be extracted with any archiving tool.

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Since Oracle doesn’t provide JDK as portable ZIP for Windows, this tutorial will show how to convert JDK from EXE to ZIP.

Are you using Java 9?

If you’re looking for instructions to convert JDK 9, the process is a bit different than this one for Java 8 and prior versions, so please visit the following tutorial for Java 9:

Pre-requisites

7-Zip – click here to download.

Download the JDK

Visit this link to download the appropriate JDK for your Windows (32 or 64 bits), accepting Oracle’s license agreement.

Extract the JDK

Create a directory to work with (by example: C:JDK) and copy the downloaded JDK to that directory;

Next, run 7-Zip, selected your JDK copy and click on Extract (Extrair):

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Leave the settings as their default on the new window that has opened, then hit OK:

Wait until the process complete, you will end with a folder with the same name as the JDK file. Go into that folder and you should have the following structure:

Open the prompt, go to the directory where the above content were extract and run the commands below, to extract once again the content we need:

A file named tools.zip is going to show up inside this directory, extract its contents with 7-Zip to get a tools folder with the following contents:

On the prompt again, run the following commands to convert the .pack into .jar files to finalize the process:

You’re done, the content inside the tools folder is now your portable JDK.

If you also want to extract the src.zip of the JDK for e.g. using with your IDE, please refer to: