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Step 1 - Setup your installation folder To make this easy create a folder c:\Install. This is where we will copy all the required files. Step 2 - 7Zip your installers Go to the folder that has your .msi and your setup.exe Select both the .msi and the setup.exe Right-Click and choose 7Zip --> "Add to Archive" Name your archive "Installer.7z" (or a name of your choice) Click Ok You should now have "Installer.7z". Copy this .7z file to your c:\Install directory Step 3 - Get the 7z-Extra sfx extension module Available in the link below Follow this link to download 7Zip + other necessary files [Hidden Content] Install 7zip and copy the other files to c:\Install Create a 7zip file with the name installer.7zip with your files and copy to c:\Install Copy the file "7zS.sfx" to c:\Install Copy config.txt to c:\Install or create your own Step 4 - Setup your config.txt Use Notepad for this but save the file in UTF-8 encoding. File > Save as > Encoding : UTF-8 Using windows explorer go to c:\Install right-click and choose "New Text File" and name it config.txt right-click and choose "Edit with notepad". Enter something like this: ;!@Install@!UTF-8! Title="SOFTWARE v1.0.0.0" BeginPrompt="Do you want to install SOFTWARE v1.0.0.0?" RunProgram="setup.exe" ;!@InstallEnd@! Edit this replacing [SOFTWARE v1.0.0.0] with your product name. Notes on the parameters and options for the setup file are here After adding the lines save as config.txt in encoded in UTF-8 CheckPoint You should now have a folder "c:\Install" with the following 3 files: Installer.7z 7zS.sfx config.txt Step 5 - Create the archive These instructions I found on the web but nowhere did it explain any of the 4 steps above. Open a cmd window, Window + R --> cmd --> press enter In the command window type the following cd \ cd Install copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + Installer.7z MyInstaller.exe Look in c:\Install and you will now see you have a MyInstaller.exe You are finished Run the installer Double click on MyInstaller.exe and it will prompt with your message. Click OK and the setup.exe will run.