To convert a .bat or a .vbs into an executables

Procedure:

1. Start run type ‘ipexpress’ (without the quotes),
2. You will be presented with the initial welcome screen and be given two choices. Select “Create new Self Extraction Directive file.” Click Next.
3. Next you will be presented with the Package Purpose screen. For our purposes select “Extract Files and run an installation command” and click the Next button.
4. You will be presented with the Package Title screen, which will give you the opportunity to give your project a name. If you are so inclined give it a meaningful name. If like me you are never going to come back to this, name it whatever you want.
5. You will next be presented with the Confirmation Prompt Screen. We would like the batch file to just be extracted and run so just choose “No Prompt” and click the Next Button.
6. You are presented with the License Agreement window. If you don’t want your users to have to answer a prompt select “Do not display a license.”
7. The Packaged Files window is where you will select your batch file (or .vbs). Click the Add button and browse to your desired file. Then click next.
8. Here you are presented with a window titled Install Program to Launch. Use the drop down control next to “Install Program and choose the only option that will be present, the .bat or .vbs file that you chose in the previous window.
9. The Show Window screen is next. I didn’t want my users to be prompted in any way so I chose Hidden. Click Next.
10. No Finished Message for my users. Select “No message” and choose Next.
11. The Package Name and Options window is where the new .exe specified. Type in a path or browse to the folder you would like your .exe in, type a name in the file name box and click save.