• IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Is that not common anymore? I remember back in the day I’d commonly end up with installers that were just self exteacting archives with a little extra. Idk I haven’t used windows basically at all in at least a decade

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Installers. The vast majority of .exes are not installers. The thing you actually run would be an .exe (and all the other files) deployed by the installer to some directory.