How Do I Go About Opening .exe files?

[thechris69]

Title is basically the thread, I have a few .exe files I need to open, and it asks me what application I should use to open the files, what application should I use?

 

[dukebound85]

well .exe files are windows executables. so either have windowes on your machine or you cant do it. Also there is a company working on doing it within osx but I am not sure how compatible they are yet. (Im thinking Vmware but I could be wrong)

 

[Cromulent]

Yep no way to execute a Windows exe file in Mac OS X unless you use Parallels and have Windows XP SP2 running in it.

 

[ero87]

i open some .exe files (particular a game from my childhood, Colonization) on my mac through a dos simulator. I use DosBox.

If your .exe file is really old, you could try that!

 

[adiosk8]

Yep no way to execute a Windows exe file in Mac OS X unless you use Parallels and have Windows XP SP2 running in it.

nope, you can download crossover for mac and you can run .exe programs and install them. or you could install bootcamp and load XP that way too, you dont need parallels

 

[clevin]

nope, you can download crossover for mac and you can run .exe programs and install them. or you could install bootcamp and load XP that way too, you dont need parallels

crossover fails most of the *.exe files, very premature.

well, OP, is it possible to ask you what kind of file are those? program? self-extract compressed files?

 

[ddekker]

what programs or .exe files are they? maybe some of us could direct you to a replacement of the same on the mac, lord knows I have spent my fair share of time looking for software that does the same as my PC

DD

 

[balamw]

self-extract compressed files?

FWIW most self-extracting archives can be opened by the non-self extracting archives can be opened by their regular non-selfextracting counterparts...

(e.g. if you find a self extracting zip, just rename it to zip and move on...)

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