title: Package AIR Application (not installer) as a single EXE on Windows
body: <p>When an AIR app is published, the result is an .air application installer. When this installer is run on a Mac, a single .app file is created, containing all the files needed to run the AIR app. When the .air installer is run on a PC, the result is a folder with several subfolders, an .exe, a .swf, and a mimetype file.</p>
  
  <p>How do I make the Windows result more like the Mac result? That is, how does one create an AIR app for Windows where the result is a single .exe file, which bundles all the needed components?</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Flash Professional, not FLEX or Flash Builder. Also, I don't need to bundle the AIR runtime or change the installation process at all. Installing from a .air file is fine. I just want to change the <em>result</em> of the installation.</p>
  
  <p>Put another way, is there a means of distributing an AIR application for Windows, where the application is a single EXE. I don't care about the installation process at all — whatever it takes, I need the result to be one EXE that directly runs my application.</p>