Re: Laptop Problem


>I have an old Latitude laptop running Win98 and upon purchased at a flea
>market I re-installed windows and having got Win98 working and the computer,
>I need to install certain pragrams using exe. files. Trouble is, whenever I
>click on an .exe file it seems not able to open them as the .exe files seem
>to change exetensions once I put in a floppy disc. I download the programs
>on my normal computer running Win XP and the files are saved as .exe files
>but once I put in the floppy into the laptop, the file extension has changed
>to a zip file! I tried to open with winzip but becasue the .exe program has
>changed it doe not work also. What is causing this and why? Please help. My
>tech knowledge is one of a intermediate user.

Email the files to yourself. You have NTFS file system on your XP
machine and FAT32 on your notebook. I have no doubt those two things
combined with a floppy are the problem. A USB thumb drive or burning
to CD might work ok though.
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