.EXE problem

[peter miller]

I have a heap of programs that are windows stuff .
they won.t unzipp or install.
this is the message I get
Not a valid windows 32 application
or if they are winzip flders it says can't read header

 

[Kelly Holdridge]

I get that on occasion, especially when setting up a new PC (and setting up the three or four games that eventually get forgotten... ). I think that alot of those are REALLY NOT 32-BIT PROGRAMS. Stuff for old computers, or even better, stuff for LINUX (sp?). Both ZDNet and C|Net have some mis-filed stuff, that's when I get errors...

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Pete you need to be 1000 times more specific here.

What exactly are you trying to run? Self-extracting zips? Old windows programs? What?

Also, what OS are you on?

Slackmaster 2000

 

[peter miller]

some appear to be self extracting zips.
And others seem to be a DOS program as they have the little dos box...
Strange considering they are stuff like logic and cool edit
and heaps of plugins.
I have 98se. using winzip.Tried alexander(unzipper) and that would not work either.

I had this problem with stuff I used to download ages ago but I found out I needed to unzip it.It's obviously not that in this case.

 

[Slackmaster2K]

And the file extention is .exe ?? Something is goofy here dude. Where were you storing these files? Could they be corrupt?

 

[peter miller]

Someone gave me the disk so I'll never know exactly where they came from..Maybe I should leave them alone

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Could they be macintosh apps?

 

[peter miller]

nope
winzip ,cool edit,and a heap of plugins I know are windows.