how to decompress exe file

Hi,
I have an .exe file and i want to see its content . I used before winrar to decompress the file ( right click and ‘ open with winrar ) but now i have another .exe file which doesnt give me this option. why ? any possibility please ?
many thanks
Answer #1
The one you saw the contents of was probably a self extracting .exe.
Normal .exe files contain only programing stuff. Nothing that can be easily deciphered…
You could try Universal Extractor to see if you can find anything in your files.
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
Answer #2
i got this. [img]http://min.us/i/GKl0qVKv6Bg[/img]
TrID/32 – File Identifier v2.02 – (C) 2003-06 By M.Pontello
Definitions found: 2641
Analyzing…
Collecting data from file: C:\Users\tes\Desktop\queue.exe
50.2% (.EXE) Win32 Executable MS Visual C++ (generic) (37706/45/16)
17.4% (.SCR) Windows Screen Saver (13105/51/3)
14.0% (.EXE) Win32 Executable Generic (10527/13/4)
10.1% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (7600/42/2)
2.7% (.EXE) Win16/32 Executable Delphi generic (2072/23)
Wise Installer package extractions cannot be logged.
Answer #3
So if you double click queue.exe does it do anything ?
If you think it may have virus you could upload it to..
https://www.virustotal.com/
Answer #4
no it is not a virus. i cant run it properly. i just wanna check the content to verify the some files that is all