I've ben having problems with my HP scanner software being able to save the files where I want to and in the format I want, so I uninstalled the HP Utility software and then sought to reinstall it off the web. However Unarchiver can't open the .exe file I have down loaded. Why?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
As far as I know, .exe is a proprietary Windows file format - you will need Windows to open it as nothing else will.
Because you downloaded the Windows version of that software. You need the Mac OS X one.
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Doh, thanks I'll go look for one.
I do wonder why the old software had problems ..... is this because I changed to Maverick?
An .exe file from Windows is a program, not a compressed archive (normally). It is possible in Windows to turn a .zip file into a self extracting archive with another utility. It then puts an .exe wrapper around the .zip file. The purpose is so you can send a .zip file to another Windows users and they don't need any kind of utility to unpack it. You just run what looks like a program, and it unpacks the enclosed .zip file. Unnecessary in any version of Windows since XP since .zip support is built in to the OS.
Anyway, it's highly unlikely to be a self extracting .zip file. No matter what you download to "open" the file, it won't work.
unable to open .exe files with unarchiver
