Remind my old friend Justin Case that it might be different between users, UAC and policy under which pc operates ;-)

>>>Is it possible to add/include a file to an EXE file? As if the file was included at design/compile time?
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>>I've recently learned that in Windows, you can add content to the end of the .EXE file that Windows just ignores. I was amazed this was allowed because it seems to be a way for viruses to propagate.
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>>In order to access the content that's been appended would require some special coding logic, but in theory you could do it using _sopen() and seeks and reads to read in the block. If you stored a value in the last 9 digits of the file, for example, indicating how big the block was before those digits, you could read in just that portion and then parse it out however you need.
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>>But the answer is yes you can add files to a .EXE after it's been built, and no they can't be accessed exactly as if they were built at compile-time. But they would be accessible, and you could include all of the program logic within the one .EXE to access that content.
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>Hi Rick,
>I have created a way to get around the need of adding a file to an EXE. So, at this point, this is not necessary.
>But I will keep your message, just in case.
>Thank you.