diff --git a/contribManager.py b/contribManager.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7f1ab3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contribManager.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# The contrib manager is used to help control the contribs script 
+# that are shipped with overviewer in Windows packages
+
+import sys
+import os.path
+
+scripts=dict( # keys are names, values are scripts
+        benchmark="benchmark.py",
+        findSigns="findSigns.py",
+        validate="validateRegionFile.py"
+        )
+
+
+# figure out what script to execute
+argv=os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
+
+if argv[-4:] == ".exe":
+    argv=argv[0:-4]
+if argv[-3:] == ".py":
+    argv=argv[0:-3]
+
+print "argv is ", argv
+
+if argv in scripts.keys():
+    script = scripts[argv]
+else:
+    if sys.argv[1] in scripts.keys():
+        script = scripts[sys.argv[1]]
+    else:
+        print "what do you want to run?"
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+
+print "running", script
+
+execfile(os.path.join("contrib", script))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e105bf6..a52880c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -91,10 +91,11 @@ def recursive_package_data(src, package_dir='overviewer_core'):
 #
 
 if py2exe is not None:
-    setup_kwargs['console'] = ['overviewer.py']
+    setup_kwargs['console'] = ['overviewer.py', 'contribManager.py']
     setup_kwargs['data_files'] = [('', doc_files)]
     setup_kwargs['data_files'] += recursive_data_files('overviewer_core/data/textures', 'textures')
     setup_kwargs['data_files'] += recursive_data_files('overviewer_core/data/web_assets', 'web_assets')
+    setup_kwargs['data_files'] += recursive_data_files('contrib', 'contrib')
     setup_kwargs['zipfile'] = None
     if platform.system() == 'Windows' and '64bit' in platform.architecture():
         b = 3