Compiling .hta file to .exe

Question

I have searched far and wide for a way to compile my .hta file (and resources) to a .exe file.

There are plenty of applications that claim to be able to do this - bu

Answer 1

HTAEdit, which comes bundled with VBSedit, does not truly hide the hta code. At run time, it extracts the original hta file to a subdirectory in %temp% and passes it off to mshta.exe to execute. The converted exe's created by VBSedit don't seem to do this as far as I can tell.