Uncompressed Installation Files

[Jeremy]

For example, when I unpack Nero's installer and it quickly scrolls down a list of files that have been uncompressed before the Installer window takes over the desktop and gets me to click Next several times....Where do these files unpack to?

[prathapml]

It unpacks to wherever the path in the nero's packed file specifies. That EXE which you download, is just a RAR SFX (created with WinRAR) with embedded instructions on what to extract, what to run, etc.

You can open the EXE with WinRAR to see the archive comments (which have the instructions you want to know).

Or, if there's no specified path to extract to, you'll normally find it extracting to one of these places:

%temp% (= C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temp\)

or, "C:\Windows\Temp\" (this is far rarer).

[oftentired]

In most cases the unpacked or unzipped files will be deleted as one of the last actions taken by the installation.