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I am trying to rename notepad.exe but can't. I tried different ways (windows explorer, command prompt, power shell). Is there way to do it?

Hi Everyone, I'm having a bit of a problem that I seem to be completely alone on. There is an executable called "YourGame.exe" that is created on my desktop every time I open the games panel in the Windows 7 start menu. It is 0 bytes so it is nothing huge, but it is extremely weird. I just...

I was going to hex edit an *.exe-file and I accidentally associated all *.exes to open up in the hex-editor. Now I can't start any applications in that user profile. I know I could do a system restore or just backup the files and delete the account to solve the problem but that would cause some...

I downloaded Windows 7 Professional 64-bit online and ran the executable (I am running inside of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit RC version) . It created the expandedSetup folder and opened the install window. The only options I have are 'Install' and 'What to know before installing Windows'. If I...

"%1 is not a valid win32 version" thats what i got when tring to execute a .exe. I´ve tried the troubshoting but nothing, even trying to execute in compabilities modes such as xp,vista and others.... Any idea of what could be cousing this?

I'm having a problem with Internet Explorer 8 on the Windows 7 beta; here's the story: a while back, I installed the Internet Explorer Collection. Then uninstalled it . . . using Revo Uninstaller, which makes sure that all the bits and pieces of the program are removed when you uninstall it. I...

I just installed the telnet client and it works from a cmd shell but any other shell (eg tcc) gives "unknown command" and can't see telnet.exe in system32. I tried copying the telnet.exe to another directory but that just hung! Any ideas?

I finally started using my '03 outlook program, and tried to click a web link, nothing happened. Decided that there was no default browser set up. So I tried to change browser to Firefox. It gave me a window to find an executable, however when I navigated to the FF folder in program files, there...

Hi everyone, I wasn't sure where else to put this, if it's in the wrong section please if there's any mod out there you can change it to where it might belong to. Anyway, the issue I'm having is one of the strangest I've seen on an OS. I all of a sudden had a problem with a certain game and a...

Hello, I'm having problems unzipping a executable file in winrar to windows 7, the other files in the volume extract except the ".exe" file. thanks

Im running a CIFS server on Open Solaris, and I get the above errors when opening almost any .exe from the share. Doesnt happen if I copy the file locally to the W7 box. Any ideas?

For some reason, anytime I drop a file on the desktop with a .exe extension, I can no longer delete that file from the desktop. Actually...I can delete it, but as soon as I hit F5 or e.g. log off and back on, the file simply reappears. I can only delete a .exe file permanently in Safe Mode. I do...

Windows Defender stopped working. I can't run it at all. When I push the button to scan, nothing happens. When I run the executable (MSASCui.exe) in the Windows 7 program files folder it says a problem caused this programs service to stop. When I click the start now button, it doesn't start...

I've tried this in compatibilty mode. the error is "you cannot run this game with modified executable code" Any suggestions?

I was using "open with" to associate a text file with notepad. I had mistakenly right clicked on a .exe file now all of my executables try to open in notepad and will not run. I acnnot undo this since there is no .exe listed under file types in the control panel file association list. Does...

http://shippingseven.blogspot.com/2008/01/registry.html to Read More Well, looks interesting to me. I would agree, this is part of why Windows cannot move quickly, because it has to be compatible with older versions of software, so they have to make it backward compatible.