Converting .exe files?? (continued)
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Name: Brent
Date: May 17, 2002 at 21:32:30 Pacific
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Comment: 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
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Name: H
Date: May 17, 2002 at 21:46:32 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It might not have downloaded completely. You might want to try downloading it again.
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Name: sam
Date: May 17, 2002 at 21:56:17 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Disregard the prior post. I read your first post.
I doubt if it works but you could try running it in Dos.
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Name: sam
Date: May 17, 2002 at 21:56:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Disregard the prior post. I read your first post.
I doubt if it works but you could try running it in Dos.
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Name: Ronnie Ratt
Date: May 17, 2002 at 22:49:54 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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.
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Name: John
Date: May 17, 2002 at 23:08:23 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Run a virus check . Online Virus check ( free )
http://housecall.antivirus.com/
http://www.coledata.com/virusalert.htm
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/av.shtml
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Name: RR
Date: May 18, 2002 at 04:48:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I'm downloading a song from Audiogalaxy at present, filename.mp3.temp, this ain't a virus. I have had many images downloaded with triple extensions that were just plain old *.jpg files with no mention of that extension in the file name, they were not virilant either, I've had *.rar.zip and *.mp3.zip files that were all good and clean. They are not all virus related with double, triple ..etc extensions. Virus schmirus !
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Name: Matt
Date: May 18, 2002 at 09:00:31 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)The file that you are trying to run doesn't for because it was corrupted in the upload, or it was not compiled for Windows. If the program was compiled for Win CE it would still show an icon and show that it is executable. When you try to run it you will receive an error similar to what you have described.
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