CHAOS Self Extractor Version 3 descriptions CHAOS Self-Extractor is the program that creates self-extracting chaos-files for Windows. Self-extracting files are executable programs that contain a chaos-file & the software necessary to decompress the contents. Users can decompress the contents of a self-extracting chaos-files simply by running it like any other program. No other software is needed. These self-extracting chaos files are ideal to electronically distribute the information because they contain multiple compressed files & folders.