cabextract Alternatives

cabextract is described as 'A library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats, CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, KWAJ and SZDD' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to cabextract for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Mac and ReactOS apps. The best cabextract alternative is 7-Zip, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like cabextract are UPX, ExEinfo PE, Bitser and Themida.

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  1. 7-Zip icon
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    Feature-rich archiving software with top-tier compression in 7z, integration in Windows Shell, AES-256 encryption, and multi-format support, including TAR, ZIP, RAR. Offers strong file management tools and a command line version for Linux/Unix systems.

    111 7-Zip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
     
    • 7-Zip is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to cabextract.

    • 7-Zip is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to cabextract.

    • 7-Zip is Free and Open Sourcecabextract is also Free and Open Source
    • 7-Zip is Lightweight, Security-focused and Privacy focusedcabextract is not according to our users
  2. UPX icon
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    UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks for most of the formats supported, because of in-place decompression.

    12 UPX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. ExEinfo PE icon
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    Packer, compressor detector / unpack info / internal exe tools.

    Internal Tools and Ripper Menu :

    Borland Delphi ( 2.0 - 7.0 ) Microsoft Visual C++ ver. 5,6,7,8.0 UPX exe/ dll 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 -3.03 -> Markus & Laszlo Aspack v2.12 -> Alexey Solodovnikov EXECrypto.

    17 ExEinfo PE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Bitser icon
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    Bitser is free Windows zip software for managing archives and backups. It supports ZIP, ZIPX, 7Z, RAR, ISO, MSI, VHD, GZIP, BZIP2,TAR, LZMA, LZMA2, NTFS, FAT, MBR, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ, CAB, CPIO, DEB, LZH, NSIS, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR, XZ, Z.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Themida icon
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    Advanced Windows software protection system, developed for software developers who wish to protect their applications against advanced reverse engineering and software cracking.

    13 Themida alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Themida is the most popular commercial alternative to cabextract.

    • Themida is Paid and Proprietarycabextract is Free and Open Source
  6. FUPX icon
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    Graphical interface for the UPX packer which offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without the need for command line usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  7. ASPack icon
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    ASPack is an advanced solution created to provide Win32 EXE file packing and to protect them against non-professional reverse engineering.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    kkrunchy is a small exe packer primarily meant for 64k intros. It's relatively useless for anything else actually, because the depacker was relatively slow in older releases (about 1-2MB per second on my machine) and is dog slow in the newest version (about 90-120k per...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Alienyze icon
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    Alienyze is a software packer and protection solution for native Windows 32-bit executable files. Alienyze allows developers to easily protect their software aginest cracking and reverse engineering, while also providing additional features such as executable compression...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    WWPack32 - Windows executable files compressor and protector. Compressed exe and dll files run exactly as before!. This program squeezes exe files and protects Win32 applications from cracking.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Crinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for Windows specifically targeted towards executables with a size of just a few kilobytes. As of 2020, it is the most widely used tool for compressing 1k/4k/8k intros.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. PECompact icon
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    PECompact is an advanced Windows executable compressor for use by software developers and vendors. Executable packers compress executable modules (EXE, DLL, etc..) so that their physical size is considerably smaller.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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