[MrNotkewl13]

No, it's not that I don't know what .exe means (executable)... I run a Macintosh OSX Tiger 10.Something... I have decent exposure to the Terminal in Mac, the Konsole in Linux, and MS-DOS via Windows XP and/or Vista.

I tried to run a .exe file on my Mac, and it said it didn't know what application to use to open it and asked if I wanted to "Choose Application". What do I do?

[emoxley]

An .exe file isn't going to run on a mac, unless you have Virtual PC on it, or unless you're one of the hacker guys that got windows running on a mac.

[MrNotkewl13]

Ok, you have no Idea how dumb I feel right now... I've helped people with much worse problems than this (not here) and now I've gone and made a fool of myself... thanks for the info...

[emoxley]

No you haven't made a fool of yourself. You just didn't realize..........
Virtual PC is a windows emulator, and you can use .exe files in it. But they run pretty slow, I hear. I've never tried it. Then there's the recent story of the hackers that got windows to run on the new intel Mac. That's a whole 'nuther thing!

Under normal circumstances, macs won't run .exe files, and windows won't run mac files. It's the nature of both beasts...........

[VegasACF]

An .exe is just an executable archive (hence the abbreviation "exe" for executable). How fast or slow it runs in VPC will depend entirely upon what resides inside the archive. What resides inside the archive may be something as simple as a video clip or something as Windows-specific as an installation program. All the ".exe" means is that you double click on it and it executes a series of commands, whether it's to launch an installer, open Windows Media Player, etc.

[tedwinder]

yeah, i had problems with that - only works with windows