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good point Dave, that kinda of solves the legalities issues I was concerned with...<br />
I will try and make sense of it on an installed machine.
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good point Dave, that kinda of solves the legalities issues I was concerned with...
I will try and make sense of it on an installed machine.

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thanks, managed to make sense of the application installed on the machine, and finally got it working
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thanks, managed to make sense of the application installed on the machine, and finally got it working

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You're welcome, glad to help.
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Hi Experts, <br />
I'm wanting to extract the contents of an installer (.exe file) and view the contents and more importantly the code behind it. Is this possible, and is this illegal?<br />
We had a little internal application written by a staff member who has now left our employ, and we wanting to see if we can get this utility working again.<br />
Many thanks in advance.<br />
Craig
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Hi Experts, 
I'm wanting to extract the contents of an installer (.exe file) and view the contents and more importantly the code behind it. Is this possible, and is this illegal?
We had a little internal application written by a staff member who has now left our employ, and we wanting to see if we can get this utility working again.
Many thanks in advance.
Craig

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