How can a .bat file be ‘converted’ to .exe without third party tools?
One very obvious approach is to use IEXPRESS – the ancient built-in tool that creates self-extracting packages and is capable to execute post extraction commands. So here’s IEXPRESS sed-directive/.bat file that creates a self-extracting .exe with packed .bat. It accepts two arguments – the .bat file you want to convert and the target executable: ;@echo … Read more