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Miles2345, posted Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:57 pm (8704)

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A bunch of old PC games I found have these installshield self-extracting EXEs for their setups, however running them requires a password (that I don't have) and there are no tools online to extract them manually.

Any info on these?

3D Brick Breaker Madness - http://puu.sh/kRu5l.zip
3D Caveman Rocks - http://puu.sh/kRu7W.zip

aluigi, posted Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:33 pm (8705)

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It's very simple.
This is the simplest step-by-step that anyone can follow:

1)
Run the the setup installer

2)
Run SysInternals Process Explorer and create a minidump of the setup process


3)
Open the minidump with a hex editor and search the string you see in the installer, for example "This will".
The password is just the text under it, "journey" in the screenshot.



That's all.
I don't know if exist tools or other ways, I simply did this test on the fly and it worked.


For reference, the passwords are rack and journey

Miles2345, posted Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:21 pm (8712)

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oh awesome, good info to know as well