Re: Laptop Problem

J. Clarke wrote:
> Starman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> XP can open a zip file, show its contents, and even run executables
> that are stored in a zip file, all transparently to the user. So
> when you copy the executable to the diskette, make _sure_ that you
> are copying what you think you are copying--the icon for a zip file
> looks much like the one for a folder--if you are copying folders you
> may be copying a zip file instead.
>
> After you have copied the files to the diskette, but before you
> remove the diskette from the XP box, open a command window and get a
> directory listing using the "DIR" command and see what that shows as
> being on the diskette.
>
> If the files you are copying are in fact .exe files, show up on the
> XP box as .exe, but show up on the Windows box at .zip with the same
> file name, then something is changing the extension--in that case I
> would be looking for a virus or other malware on one box or the other.

If the OP is using Icon view and has the extensions for known file types
hidden, the executable file's icon changes to the zip icon when copied
to XP since the file is compressed. It is likely that the file
extension has not changed at all.

Q


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