Well since i forgot to add something to my problem i didn't really get the answer i needed.. this is what i forgot to add: I did try to open the file but it said this is not a viald win32 program.... i downloaded this program off KaZaA so it only exepts .exe files so it had to be converted from it's compressed form but i can't get it back nor open it i tried everythign renaiming editing property's opening it with programs... but nothing has works all i need to know is that if i can get it back to a archive from it's exe form... is there a converter out there or another way???? i know it's hard to understand but it's hard to explain but i hope you can help

It might not have downloaded completely. You might want to try downloading it again.

It is downloaded completely

What was the extension when you downloaded it?

Disregard the prior post. I read your first post. I doubt if it works but you could try running it in Dos.

Disregard the prior post. I read your first post. I doubt if it works but you could try running it in Dos.

G'day Brent, when you say you renamed it did you rename the extension from *.exe to *.zip. One way to find out for sure if it is an *.exe file is to open it in Wordpad and see if the first two letters at the start of the file are MZ, this is generally an executable file's file-header. I have downloaded *.exe files that were actually *.zips before and was able to get it to extract after changing the extension.