Hi, does anyone know what .exe file extractor exists to extract the VR and TCD installers? I extract the R2R installers with InnoExtract.

 

What operating system are you using?

You usually download compressed files and unpack the WinRar file with WinRar or 7-Zip!
You can download WinRar from its sister site; it's the most widely used program in the world.

 

you can't Their installers are password protected for some unknown reason, which doesn't speak well of them.
Use Sandboxie or some other sandbox to install them and extract the files.

 

This is somewhat dated but possibly still relevant V.R. installers

 

Last edited: Sep 25, 2025

Thanks for this, but since it's old it doesn't currently work for VR installers.

 

What I've always been doing is install the program-plugins, then copy all the files and registry entries it installed and pack them into a my "manual installer".

It feels more comfortable to do it in a Virtual Machine OS, or in a "disposable WinOS" as I do it, so all the crap stays in one place or gets deleted.

Installing programs-plugins "manually" works most of the time. I rarely encountered some plugins that use files in System folder. They usually put files only in "Program Files", "Program Files/Common Files", "User" and "ProgramData" folders, and create "HKey/Local/Software"registry entries.

For unpacking files from setups Universal Extractor does a great job if the archive is not password protected (or you know the password).

 

Last edited: Sep 25, 2025

You need the most recent version of InnoExtractor as most installers get compiled with an up to date version of Inno Setup.
When using an old version of InnoExtractor, it can't read installers compiled with current Inno builds.

Alternatively you can use InnoUnpacker (Github). This is basically the same but free and it supports
all the current builds of Inno Setup.

TCD installers btw. are not protected or compiled in a modified Inno version.
Just tested his latest release, worked in the current version of InnoExtractor.

 

Last edited: Sep 25, 2025

this package of Cerbero Suite could probably deal with protected installers https://cerbero.io/packages/innosetupformat/

 

I'm using this one;

That innoextractor works for all of R2R's (even latest).. It does not work for TCD (latest, yesterday) or V.R. releases... UniversalExtractor (latest) doesn't work either.

The unpacker (github) works on TCD. Doesn't work on V.R. or BTCR releases (neither of them work with UniversalExtractor either).

 

Last edited: Sep 25, 2025

Windows 11

 

Then your version is a little outdated.
I have this one:


Universal Extractor is very outdated + it uses an old innounp binary that only works for installers built with
Inno Setup until v6.1 (2020 / 5 years ago). Thats why it doesn't work on a lot of things.

 

Last edited: Sep 29, 2025

Well it seems we are back at square 1 regarding inno setup extraction.
I updated all my extractors to these;

INNOExtractor 2026 v11.3.161
INNOunpacker v2.1.2

But it seems V.R. and R2R releases are now both unextractable even with the newest tools

 

This is the only recent R2R release I have lying around and it seems to extract fine as far as I can tell (can't verify):

Code:

innounp -x "Setup Steinberg Silk Emulator v1.5.0.exe"

innounp - the Inno Setup Unpacker, version 2.66.2 (03.01.26)

Inno Setup archive:           Setup Steinberg Silk Emulator v1.5.0.exe
Inno Setup version detected:  6.6.1 (Unicode)

#1 {tmp}\R2RINNO6.dll - extracted
#2 {app}\changelog.txt - extracted
#3 {app}\SilkEmuTest.exe - extracted
#4 {commoncf64}\Steinberg\TEAM R2R\license-engine-access,1.dll - extracted
#5 {commoncf64}\Steinberg\TEAM R2R\license-engine-access,2.dll - extracted
#6 install_script.iss - extracted

 

Try V.R.'s. Doesn't work here at all...