
Supposedly this would overwrite all the files there from the old versions of the program, and uninstallation of any previous version wouldn't be necessary.

The installation instructions tell to simply extract the archive to the same installation folder where the game is installed. This particular utility is distributed as a.

My question isn't about any specific program or utility, but merely as an example, I'll refer the Wrye Bash utility used to manage and install mods for the game Oblivion.
