Saturday, September 15, 2007

Convert your .bat to .exe within few seconds...

Hi all,

First of all, i would like to say sorry for my poor english and i realize that i missed out to type many words properly in my previous blogs. The most stupid mistake that i did was typing "wit" instead of "without". So when i make this sort of mistakes, it changes the meaning of the whole sentense. I am very sorry. Please tolerate my mistakes and thank you so much for it.

Before coming to bat2exe issue, previously i had post direct download link for 6 of Harry Potter ebooks. The 7th ebook also launched "pirate" and available widely on internet. I could not share the direct download link because i downloaded the ebook from torrents (around 2mb - PDF). If you could not find it anywhere online, please feel free to drop me an email or reply to this post request for the ebook, i will email it to you because uploading pirate contents to internet is illegal (but can be shared through email because no other will know) :)

Now coming to our topic of discussion, 'bat to exe'. I assume that many basic DOS users will know to create .bat files which makes the easy way to create/copy/delete/rename folder or files. Sometimes, we can use this batch as a installer whereas it is capable of copying all files from CD/DVD to hard disk with just few lines of DOS language without need to execute anything. Although this sounds good, the bad part is, anyone can access to your .bat files and edit the script. So how to hide our scripts from being edited? How to hide our work? Easy, lets put it to EXE.

We can use converters available in the internet to conver .bat to .exe but the issue here is, how far actually your script is save? Some complain that they still can open the .exe file in notepad and access the script.

The best solution i found online is the wonderful simple freeware called "Bat To Exe Converter" by f2ko. It is superb. The script can be secured. Besides you can include icon and version description/author information which will make your new .exe file look exactly as an application. The most interesting part is the "Ghost" option which the application has to make your .bat works without DOS window. Sounds interesting, by this you can hide the real news that your file was actually designed in batch format.

You can read more about the software at : www.f2ko.de
Or download it at : http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Batch-To-Exe-Converter.shtml

I benefited from using this software because recently i wrote batch file to backup database for the company i working for. So to make it like a professional application, i used the converter and included version, author, my company name, and company logo as icon which made the application look wonderful executeable file.

This is all for today.

Will blog about something else later...

Have a nice day !