Running a windows .exe file on a mac

If it's a zip file wrapped up with executable code, all you have to do is rename the extension as ".zip' instead of ".exe" and then just double click it.

 

First of all, you don't buy Boot Camp - it comes with Mac OS X if you have Leopard. Secondly, it may very well be a self-extracting archive - you can find out by attempting to decompress it with The Unarchiver. If that fails, it probably is a Windows executable. There are several ways to run one - you can use Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion (which aren't free and require a validly licensed copy of Windows), Boot Camp (which is free and requires a validly licensed copy of Windows), or CrossOver Mac (which is not free, does NOT require Windows, but doesn't run all Windows applications, and the ones it does run don't always run perfectly).