Convert EXE files online for free
The converter easily converts your EXE file to various formats - free and online. No Windows or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Executable formats to EXE with high quality output.
The .EXE format is the standard executable file used by Microsoft Windows and legacy DOS systems to launch software applications. These files contain compiled machine code, program resources (like icons and images), and headers that tell the operating system how to run the process. While essential for software delivery, .EXE files present significant challenges: they are platform-specific (useless on macOS, Linux, or Android without emulation), they are frequently blocked by email providers like Gmail due to high security risks (malware vectors), and their contents are locked in binary, making them impossible to read or edit with standard text tools.
To overcome these limitations, users often need to convert .EXE files based on their specific goals. For enterprise deployment or group policy installation, converting .EXE to MSI (Windows Installer) is standard. To bypass email security filters or reduce file size, wrapping the executable in a ZIP or 7Z archive is recommended. For extracting assets - such as the application icon or embedded images - users should convert the resource stream to ICO or PNG. Mac users often seek to "convert" these files to APP or DMG, though this typically requires wrapping the software in a compatibility layer like Wine.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EXE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted APPLICATION, ZIP, FLASH, APK, DLL, GAME, INK, LNK, SEC, WPS, INF, RAR and MSI files.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our EXE converter.